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STATEMENT

Arash Fayez’s practice investigates conditions of displacement and notions such as statelessness, limbo, and in-betweenness. Spanning writing, performance, and video, his projects explore situations where the mind is in limbo and the body is in between; in other words, the mental and physical states resulting from being between two locations, two cultures, or two identities. Fayez’s practice looks at the segment that separates two conditions and directs the audience to neither one place nor another but to what can be found in between. His work is primarily based on autobiographical experiences interlaced with fictional and nonfictional content. By employing storytelling strategies, he combines fiction and documentary to construct an emotional landscape that resonates with the in-between.

BIO

Arash Fayez is an artist and curator. In 2011, he left his hometown to pursue his studies in San Francisco. After receiving his masters in Fine Arts, he continued his career as an artist while working at KADIST Art Foundation. Since 2018, Fayez has been based in Barcelona and is currently part of la asociación cultural de Trama 34 en Hospitalet. He has exhibited/performed at venues such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Musée du quai Branly, Paris; the British Museum, London; and the Wattis Institute, CA. Fayez’s practice investigates the condition of displacement in relation to desire where he researches notions such as statelessness, limbo, and in-betweenness. Spanning writing, performance, and video, his projects explore the condition of a mind in limbo as a result of the body in between; or, in other words, the mental and physical states of being in limbo as a result of being between two locations, two cultures, or two identities. His practice looks at the segment that separates these two phenomena and aim its audience to neither one place nor another but to what can be found in between. These works are primarily derived from autobiographical experiences interlaced with nonfictional content where he makes use of writing as a principle method to give shape to new ideas. By employing storytelling strategies, his writings are a mixture of fiction and documentary to construct an emotional landscape that resonate with displacement.