Talk // Sgwrs:
Adham Faramawy

11 November 2021

`The air is subtle, various and sweet`, video, 35 minutes, Adham Faramawy, 2020

We are really pleased to welcome Adham Faramawy for a talk following the Jarman screenings. Join us for a relaxed look at their work and hear more about the Jarman shortlisted film the air is subtle, various and sweet (2021)

11/11/21, 18.00
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Adham works across a wide variety of media from computer programmes, moving image and apps to print. Their performance for camera videos are often installed as part of sculptural assemblages.

Mixing found footage with footage of two dancers shot on the Wanstead Flats nature reserve in east London, I’ve been thinking about the relationship I, as a person of colour, have with ideas of ‘the land’, plant taxonomy (whether a body is understood as native, whether this means it’s desirable), ideas of roots/heritage.

Adham Faramawy works across a wide variety of media from computer programmes, moving image and apps to print. Their performance for camera videos are often installed as part of sculptural assemblages. The works consider how social issues become entangled with environmental issues. Using movement, poetry, spoken word, and dance they tell stories about consumption, identity construction, the body and the nature of desire. Adham has had a solo exhibition at Bluecoat Liverpool and has screened at both Tate Britain and Tate Modern.

The following Artists were in this show: