We are proud to share a new short film by artist Adham Faramawy, produced with support from the Near Now Fellowship.
You can now watch 'The air is subtle, various and sweet' (2020) online via Serpentine Galleries.
The air is subtle, various and sweet
Video, 35 minutes, Adham Faramawy, 2020
Premiered as part of Serpentine Galleries’ art & ecology festival and made during the COVID-19 pandemic, ‘The air is subtle, various and sweet’ has been a way for Faramawy to think about the artist’s relationship with their father who passed away this summer. The film explores their relationships with ideas of the land, plant taxonomy (whether a body is understood as native, whether this means it’s desirable), ideas of roots/heritage, in both Faramawy’s home in Newham east London and his father’s in Toukh, a town north of Cairo in Egypt.
Still from The air is subtle, various and sweet (2020) by Adham Faramawy
Credits
The air is subtle, various and sweet (2020) by Adham Faramawy
Translation and Research Support: Basma Faramawy
Performance: Tyler Deyn and Joseph Funnell
Production Assistance: Alyah Nurya Bint Ahmed Hatta
Sound Mastering: Steve Wyatt
Premiered by Serpentine Galleries at The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, a two day art & ecology festival on soil, earth, land and ground, 5-6 December, 2020.
About the artist
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.
