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Farah Salem and Antonio Da Silva

Performance Photography, Digital Experimentation, Book

2018

In this book, the artists are revisiting a series of images created a few years ago. The images are a result of an invitation by Antonio for Farah to perform in his photographs wearing the ‘abaya. Her role was passive, a performance upon request through the ‘abaya. In this piece, Farah’s role transforms into an active role, as a collaborating artist whose voice is presented through images taking the form of the ‘abaya.

About the Project:

 This art book is part of an art project organized by the art collective WYL / What's your location? - which can be read as from what point of view one perceives the world?. This collaborative international art project aims to combine artistic expressions by exploring topics related to globalization and how it effects local communication and culture. With artists mostly from Brazil, Kuwait and England, each art book seeks to foster dialogues in the form of image and / or text, revealing the strategies jointly developed by each pair or trio of  artists. The final publications are printed in Portuguese and Arabic.

The project promoted the choice between pairs and trios of artists, based in Brazil, Kuwait, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. Thus, the books are the result of a long collaborative process, of digital messages and texts, in Arabic, Portuguese and English, according to the origin of each work.