Adham Faramawy
Adham Faramawy works across media including moving image, sculptural installation, photography and wall-based works to explore issues around queer identities, the migrant subject position and queer ecologies. Their work teases out the complexities of minority subject positions. Earlier works such as 'Skin Flick' (2019) use technology and its relationship to the body to articulate how we navigate technologies in order to create identifications and participate in the ongoing processes of identity. More recent works such as 'The air is subtle, various and sweet' (2021) begin with a consideration of what is 'natural' and what is 'invasive' in plants and ecology in order to open up meditations on the subject positions of migrants and refugees. These recent works that also include ‘Proposal for a Parakeet’s Garden’ tease out that relationship between the histories that make us, and how we might stand apart from those for a moment, in order to consider ourselves as subjects who have agency.
Adham Faramawy is an artist of Egyptian descent based in London. They have had screenings at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Serpentine Gallery, London and Serpentine Ecologies Symposium, London; They have had recent exhibitions at Science Museum, Melbourne; Buffalo University Gallery, Buffalo (group); the Bernis Center, Omaha (group); Centre for Contemporary Arts Goldsmiths (London); Niru Ratnam Gallery, London (solo), Somerset House, London (group) and and Science Gallery, London (solo). They were shortlisted for the Jarman award 2021 and 2017.
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‘Testament’ Questions the Moments We Memorialize
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‘I don’t know you like that’
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'Break the Binaries' at the Science Gallery, Melbourne
A new exhibition presents a kaleidoscopic view of identity, gender and the world around us featuring Adham Faramawy February 14, 2023Installations from local and international artists will present a playful and kaleidoscopic view of identity and genders, and their relationship with science, technology, culture, race,...Read more -
I don't know you like that : The bodywork of hospitality
UB Art Galleries, University at Buffalo November 10, 2022Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept with legal implications, an ethical concern, a social/political practice… or an industry. Developed by guest curator Sylvie Fortin,...Read more -
Adham Faramawy screening at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
November 3, 2022As part of the museum’s after hours program, Adham Faramawy will present their film ‘The air is subtle, various and sweet’ (2020-2021). The screening will...Read more -
Adham Faramawy screening at Tate Modern, London
As part of the Tate Late's program ALL BODIES RADIATE LIGHT October 28, 2022Join a two-part programme exploring artists’ approaches to plant-human politics and rooted futures. Curated by Counter Encounters collective, the two-day Encounters over Several Plants series...Read more
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Queercircle
Sci-fi Queer Ecologies with Adham Faramwy July 27, 2022Artist Faramawy leads an informal discussion of 'Queer Ecologies' by way of introducing Catriona Sandilands, the scholar who coined the termRead more -
Queer Earth and Liquid Matters
Adham Faramawy presents a new performance July 16, 2022A Back to Earth LIVE programme exploring transformation, queerness, the wild, the natural and the unnatural, as well as, decolonial, Indigenous and submerged perspectives. Queer...Read more -
'Back to Earth' at Serpentine Galleries, London
June 3, 2022Throughout Summer 2022, Serpentine presents a Back to Earth exhibition and live programme that reflect how we can learn from diverse experiences to create change....Read more -
Queer Ecologies: Artist Adham Faramawy
May 16, 2022What might it mean to ‘queer’ ecology? When scientist George Murray Levick recorded same-sex coitus among Arctic penguins in 1910-13, he wrote his observations in...Read more
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'Testament' at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Arts, London
Adham Faramawy and Jala Wahid present new works January 21, 2022As the UK navigates seismic shifts triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit, the role of monuments has...Read more -
I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality at Bemis Center, New York
Adham Faramawy presents 'Skin Flicks', 2019. December 9, 2021Developed for Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts by 2019-2021 Curator-in-Residence Sylvie Fortin, the ambitious group exhibition brings together the works of 18 contemporary artists to...Read more -
Film London Jarman Award Weekend 2021
Adham Faramawy in conversation with curator Kostas Stasinopoulos November 13, 2021A reading from the poet Nisha Ramayya followed by and in conversation between the artist Adham Faramawy and the curator Kostas Stasinopoulos. This event was...Read more