SKIN FLICK (INVASIVE SPECIES)

Adham Faramway 

Do our bodies really end at the skin?     

The skin is the human body’s largest organ. Not only does our skin span the entirety of our body, but it also extends us into the environment through bacteria, touch, and ideology. This video installation chronicles everyday experiences of identity, sensuality, and physicality. In times of political and societal upheaval, our bodies feel less familiar. Thinking about cosmetics, anti-ageing treatments and hormones, the work invites us to consider why we might become uncomfortable with aging, bodily fluids, and disease?  

What do you put your body through?   

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Adham Faramawy is an artist based in London. Their work spans moving image, sculptural installation and print exploring issues of materiality, touch, embodiment and identity construction cross pollinating aesthetic categories and co-opting special effects drawn from advertising to evoke desire for people, things and experiences. Faramawy was shortlisted for the Jarman award in 2017 and 2021. 

SKIN FLICK (Invasive species) was commissioned by Near Now and Science Gallery London, King’s College London, as part of GENDERS: Shaping and Breaking the Binary.