For ArtTrail ‘09, in association with Triskel Arts Centre
The Black Mariah presents video works by

Adham Faramawy

Faramawy’s mode of image making is resolutely representational. Rooted
in a fixation on culture, allegory and the fantastic, he expresses ideas
concerning transmissions of knowledge demonstrating fluid or floating
identities. This geographical ‘transmission’, both religious and aesthetic,
marks a shift from the psychedelic to the gothic. Imagining the arabesque
ceiling to be an early form of computer generated fractal image, everything
folding in on itself in an ever-complexifying geometric ecstasy.

Folk stories and early religious mythology are the basis of visual allegory demarcating the
burden of aesthetic lineage. The ‘in-between place’ is the dwelling of the work. The subjects
are often depicted in a moment of enlightenment, always seeking to attain or become. An
interest in animism, the evil eye, Sufi theology and ritual, medieval and Ancient Egyptian takes on representation, have lead to the adoption of a lexicon of images and a fascination with the averted gaze.

Triskel at ESB Substation, Caroline St, Cork.