Adham Faramawy

Adham Faramawy (ادهم فرماوي) (born 1981, Dubai) is a London-based artist of Egyptian descent. He studied at both The Slade School of Fine Art and The Royal Academy and is affiliated with the !WOWOW! group[1]. Faramawy works predominantly in digital video, print and sculptural installation. His video works are often installed as single and multi channel projections and multi channel cathode ray television stacks. His pieces have thus far explored folk stories, early religious mythologies, animism, psychedelia, extreme science and the occult married together in an investigative re-presentation of linear narrative structures, forefronting performance and language.[2] Much of the work exhibited in 2011 ranging from video to performance through figurative sculpture and digital print, explored concepts surrounding Susan Blackmore's ideas on memes and fluid identity as well as Ray Kurzweil's futurist research published in his 2005 book The Singularity is Near. Faramawy has worked and collaborated with many artists affiliated with the !WOWOW! group, as well as musicians such as Susanne Oberbeck of No Bra. Performance artists such as Theo Adams and Millie Brown [3] (known for her work with Nick Knight and Lady Gaga) have both starred in video works. Thomas Hein of These New Puritans wrote a piece of music as a score for Faramawy's video piece Moonhead which was later developed into a track for the band's second album 'Hidden'. He has been actively involved with URA Gallery and publishing in Istanbul, exhibiting his video stack 'Nut and Geb' at URA as part of the 10th Istanbul Biennial and collaborating on the URA ZINE publication since 2007. Faramawy has exhibited his work most notably at Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, Ibid Pojects, London, MAK Museum, Vienna and The Black Mariah Gallery in Cork. In January 2008, Faramawy performed his piece 'I Can Do Impossible Things' at Tate Britain. At the same event he premiered his video piece 'Time Wave Zero', titled after Terence McKenna's computer program by the same name. In 2011 Faramawy had a solo show in London titled Legend II at the Aubin Gallery [4] and was included in a performance event titled The Dandyism of Contempt[5].

References

  1. ^ Guy-Watkins, Oliver, http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A12464561, BBC.co.uk, 2006
  2. ^ Burley, Isabella, Tank Magazine, November 2010, p.18
  3. ^ Fury, Alex, http://showstudio.com/blog/46128, Showstudio.com, 2010
  4. ^ Sanville, Rhiann, http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/9309/1/wowows-adham-faramawy, Dazeddigital.com, 2011
  5. ^ Mitter, Vanessa, http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/the-dandyism-of-contempt/, Chelsea School of Art and Design, 2011

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