Fadl Fakhouri
Fadl Fakhouri is an artist, writer and curator whose work centers on dots, lines and color as a method of pursuing definition and positionality. Through the utility of body, images and contextualized objects, they formulate poetic statements of determination. Fadl has exhibited work at SFAI (San Francisco), A.I.R. (New York), Times Square (New York), Jacobs Institute (Berkeley), The Poetry Project (New York), The Cincinnati Art Museum, Abrons Art Center (NY), Fringe! Film Festival (London) and The Jewish Museum (New York). They hold a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California Berkeley and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.
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Postcard to Ghassan, 2024
mixed media on paper
5 x 7 in
It was the summer of 1972 when Ghassan Kanafani, spokesman of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, climbed into his gray Austin 1100. Accompanied by his 17-year-old niece, Lamis, he started the ignition and the two were instantly obliterated, shaking the entire suburban Beirut neighborhood. It turned out that, hidden in the right front fender, buried under 5 kilos of plastic, a 3 kilo hand grenade had been planted and wired to the ignition to serve as a detonator by the Israeli national intelligence agency, Mossad. Several other PFLP leaders among with the general public were forced to watch this star author and journalist, along with his collateral niece, disintegrate beyond recognition. Instant death.
Returning to Haifa, 2024
mixed media on paper
7 x 5 in
EBM, 2020