Fadl Fakhouri
Fadl Fakhouri is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on positionality relative to borders. Fadl has exhibited at San Francisco Art Institute, St.Moritz Art Film Festival, The Poetry Project, The Cincinnati Art Museum, and The Museum of the Moving Image. They hold a BA in Biology from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. They have held positions at Pratt Institute, Sotheby's Institute of Art and Tripwire Journal.
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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
digital prints from film
dimensions variable
At its peak in the 80s, the EBM genre was a mix of industrial and post-punk music which commonly referenced imperialism, militarism, and fascism. As a form of protest, this community of musical acts would routinely include imagery from these isms in an effort to embody their violent character.
The EBM series sources the archive of my family’s photos carried through immigration from Palestine and takes notes from the aesthetic of EBM (Electronic Body Music) to illustrate the violence of military occupation in everyday life—how it lingers in every moment, whether it be as celebratory as a wedding or as mundane as sitting on some steps.
Red + Blue, 2021
ballpoint pen
17” x 14”
My ethnicity, 2021
pastel, crayon, ballpoint pen
two 17” x 14” papers
Referencing the cocktail effect of my identity, an olive, a common symbol of my home country, has been westernized, pitted and stuffed with pepper. The work draws parallels and connections between people, objects and symbols.
BOOM SKY, 2021
acrylic, graphite
60” x 48”
They blew up the sky, yet the sky was the limit.
You can’t have this, 2019
digital print