Adham Faramawy has been named as recipient of the 2023 Artist Award at Frieze London, realised in partnership with Forma. The award provides an artist with the opportunity to debut an ambitious new commission at Frieze London at a formative moment in their career.
Adham Faramawy has been named as recipient of the 2023 Artist Award at Frieze London, realised in partnership with Forma. The award provides an artist with the opportunity to debut an ambitious new commission at Frieze London at a formative moment in their career.
The Artist Award has been a cornerstone of Frieze’s artist-led projects over the past two decades. Previous recipients of the accolade include Himali Singh Soin (2019), Alberta Whittle (2020), Sung Tieu (2021) and Abbas Zahedi (2022).
Faramawy’s winning commission, And these deceitful waters, will be a video and sculptural assemblage examining the history of the Thames, its underground tributaries and the plants along its banks as a way of exploring the river as a colonial artery and a site of ecological collapse. Employing a three-person dance performance with music and spoken word, Faramawy’s work will tell the migration stories of the river and its flora, surveying how they build national identity and can construct, reinforce and dissolve borders. The work will weave tales together, illustrating how land becomes co-opted into projects of nation building, colonisation, ecological collapse, toxicity and migration. Faramawy’s project will be installed at the entrance to Frieze London this year.
Adham Faramawy is an artist of Egyptian descent based in London. Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation, photography, print and painting, engaging with concerns of materiality, touch, the body and toxicity to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalised communities.
Faramawy has screened work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London; Serpentine Gallery, London and Serpentine Ecologies Symposia, London. Their recent exhibitions include Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Arts, London; Somerset House, London; Buffalo University Gallery, Buffalo; The Bemis Center, Omaha; Niru Ratnam Gallery, London (solo), and Cell Projects, London (solo). They were shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2017 and 2021.
Image : Adham Faramawy, Skin Flick, 2021, sculptural assemblage, video, 13 minutes 30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam Gallery. Photo by Colin Conces
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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