The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory
5th & 6th December 2020
Online at themind.fish
The Understory of the Understory is the fourth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species, part of the Serpentine’s General Ecology project. With The Understory of the Understory, we go to that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, the place where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another but also where complex systems of redistribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet.
Adham Faramawy
The air is subtle, various and sweet,
Adham Faramawy has produced an audiovisual work comprised of sketch-like performance for camera, spoken word, field recording and found footage of their father (artist and musician Saeed Faramawy). The work attempts to explore Faramawy’s relationship, as a person of colour, with ideas of ‘the land’, plant taxonomy (thinking about whether a body is understood as native, whether this means it’s desirable), ideas of roots and heritage, relating this exploration to the recent passing of their father, their relationship with him, and his strong affinity as an artist and musician with his falahi (rural/farming) roots and his home town Toukh (north of Cairo in the Al Qalyubia Governorate).
Adham Faramawy is an artist based in London. Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation and print, engaging and using technology to discuss issues of materiality, touch, the mediation of images and (toxic) embodiment to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalised communities.
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