Fadl Fakhouri
Bio: Fadl Fakhouri (b. 1997, San Francisco, California) performs, sculpts and imagines in New York City. Fadl pursued their MFA in visual arts at Columbia University and previously attended the University of California Berkeley where they graduated with a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology (’19).
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Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My practice centers on lines, asking what comprises the lines of life, what it takes to cross these lines, how many lines it takes to create a container, and how to redraw these lines. Such lines considered include the borders of nation states, identity, and interpersonal boundaries. I am curious about the validity of certain lines and traveling across them through various mediums, such as text, image, sense or formats not yet discovered.
L to R: Where (Nowhere, Somewhere & In-Between), (83" x 186" x 36", Forty-seven Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, 2022); How (Blossom), (11" x 8" x 4", Orange blossom water, fabric, 2022); What (Lesson learned), (96" x 30" x 27", Pencils, ream of paper, ink, 2022)
First Year Exhibition
PALESTINIAN - - - AMERICAN (3:25 min., Two-channel video installation (color, sound), gaffer tape, screws, reflective road markers, 2021)
As an American-born child of Palestinian refugees, assimilation into the United States has not been a pleasant process. I am told to be happy because I live outside the genocidal Israeli occupation, yet we exist here in isolation as a fragment of Palestine that is unable to reconnect. This work should be read like the Arabic language from right to left.
