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David Michel Fayek

@david_mfayek

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Inner Mental Space, 2025
Cm 55x40 each
Mixed media on Magnani cotton paper mounted on wood board, framed.

Available price on request

Extract from the critical text written by @vvvikingaaa

"Fayek’s work reveals how spatial control is not incidental but deeply
embedded in the fabric of cities, passed down through generations as an invisible architecture of power. Bodies navigate urban landscapes shaped by policies of restriction and surveillance, where movement is not just about geography but about access, privilege, and exclusion. The ability to move freely (or to be obstructed) becomes a measure of systemic control, dictating who belongs and who is kept at the margins.
At REA Fair 2025, Fayek presents Inner Mental Space (2025), an interrogation of colonial photography and its lasting imprint on the way indigenous and exploited communities are represented. Drawing from Ella Shohat and Robert Stam’s critique of the "camera gun" - the way photography was weaponized by colonial powers - Fayek exposes how these visual technologies were not just tools of documentation, but of domination. The colonial gaze, fixed through the lens, turned landscapes and people into specimens, reinforcing pseudo-scientific biases that still resonate today."

Full text available on @rea.fair catalogue 2025
#lensbasedartist #photographiecontemporaine #cameralessphotography #surveillance taken in Milano, Italia by @david_mfayek

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David Michel Fayek’s @david_mfayek work explores the intersection of bodies, control, and movement within urban landscapes. Through photography, installations, and archival material, he investigates
how architecture, surveillance, and mass psychology shape our interactions with space.
For #reafair2025, Fayek presents Inner Mental Space (2025), a critical examination of colonial
photography and its ongoing influence on the representation of marginalized communities. Drawing on the concept of the “camera gun,” Fayek exposes how colonial powers used photography not just to document, but to dominate and control, shaping perceptions of the
“other.” By recontextualizing these historical materials, he challenges us to confront how these
systems of control still permeate our present, from urban planning to social exclusion.

Il lavoro di David Michel Fayek @david_mfayek esplora l’intersezione tra corpi, controllo e movimento all’interno
dei paesaggi urbani. Attraverso la fotografia, le installazioni e il materiale d’archivio, indaga
come l’architettura, la sorveglianza e la psicologia di massa plasmino le nostre interazioni con lo
spazio. Per #reafair2025, Fayek presenta Inner Mental Space (2025), un’esaminazione critica della
fotografia coloniale e della sua continua influenza sulla rappresentazione delle comunità
marginalizzate. Partendo dal concetto di “camera-gun”
, Fayek rivela come le potenze coloniali
usassero la fotografia non solo per documentare, ma per dominare e controllare, plasmando la
percezione dell’”altro”. Recontestualizzando questi materiali storici, ci sfida a confrontarci con
come questi sistemi di controllo permeino ancora il nostro presente, dalla pianificazione urbana
all’esclusione sociale.

👉Discover all V Edition participants via tag
#reafair2025artists
#reafair #reaartfair #contemporaryart #emergingartists by @david_mfayek

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New city, new mindset, new productions

Thanks to who's supporting
Updates soon taken in Florence by @david_mfayek

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Enframing the national mind, 2024
Cm 49 X 36
Acrylic, coffee and contact print on Rosaspina paper mounted on wood board

Available, price on request
#printmaking #africanart #emergingartist #contemporarypainting #artcollector #alternativeprocess #contemporaryphotography taken in Garden City, Cairo by @david_mfayek

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🇳🇱 De winnende kunstwerken van Zomersalon 2024 zijn inmiddels al bijna een jaar te bewonderen in de openbare ruimte van Amsterdam Zuidoost. Het thema van dat jaar was TIJD, en zoals elk jaar kregen bezoekers de kans om op hun favoriete werken te stemmen.

In 2025 stond Amsterdam 750 jaar centraal en vanaf begin juli zijn de winnende kunstwerken van 2025 opnieuw een jaar lang te zien in de buitenruimte van Amsterdam Zuidoost.

Dit jaar is het thema UTOPIA en goed nieuws: de inschrijvingen voor Zomersalon 2026 gaan binnenkort open. Dus ben jij een kunstenaar (beginnend, professioneel of amateur) en heb jij een mooi werk wat past bij dit thema? Dan is dit je moment! … Elke discipline is welkom!

Tag jouw favoriete kunstenaar die zekers mee moet doen met onze Zomersalon dit jaar!

🇬🇧 The winning artworks from the Zomersalon 2024 have now been on view in the public spaces of Amsterdam Zuidoost for almost a year. The theme that year was TIME, and as is the yearly tradition, visitors were given the chance to vote for their favourite works.

In 2025, the focus was on Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary, and from early July, the winning artworks from 2025 will once again be on display for a year in the outdoor spaces of Amsterdam Zuidoost.

This year’s theme is UTOPIA, and here’s some good news: entries for the 2026 Zomersalon will open shortly. So, are you an artist (whether you’re just starting out, a professional or an amateur) and do you have a great piece of work that fits this theme? Then now is your chance! … All disciplines are welcome!

Tag your favourite artist who definitely needs to take part in our Zomersalon this year! taken in Stadsdeel Amsterdam Zuidoost by @david_mfayek

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Nizam, 2023
Acrylic, gesso, contact print on canvas
cm 60 x 50

This work was inspired by the late 19th-century attempt to impose a British colonial military-style order (Nizam) on Egyptian rural society

#davidmichelfayek
#africancontemporaryart
#printmaking
#egyptianartist @curatedeye taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @david_mfayek

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A shot from the final talk in occasion of my artistic residency and first ever project in Egypt @ard_art_institution_ made possible by @eunicinegypt
Presenting the wide project "Crowd Studies"

with artists #tjašarener @christina.zampoulaki @mhammed_kilito, Garden City, Cairo, May 2024

#artistinresidence #africanartist
#artisttalk taken in Cairo, Egypt by @david_mfayek

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@ard_art_institution @eunicinegypt _
April/May End of residency restitution 🇪🇬

Presenting the ongoing research on the concept of Enframing and the impact of Gustave Le Bon "Psychologie de la foule" on the Egyptian Elites and on urban modernization of Egypt in early 1900'.
I finally came up with two pieces which I called 'Amulets'. They stand for gathering of materials I would normally use for producing new artworks as they retain the same spiritual energy as an artwork would, but in a seed-like state.

Egyptian cotton, tinted glass, Egyptian tea-toned print, archival photos film negative on calc paper, drawing on cotton fabric
Cm 85 X 85 ~ each
Thanks to the numerous inspiring humans I met in this journey
Special thanks to
@hanaelbeblawy
@amiraelkouny.visarts
#nouranmohsen taken in ARD Art Institution by @david_mfayek

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in May 24 while studio visiting the brilliant photographer @alizaraay #safena.7 in Downtown Cairo with fellow resident artists from @ard_art_institution_ taken in Cairo, Egypt by @david_mfayek

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Amulet #1, 2024 (detail)

Cotton fabric, found tinted glass, contact print on cotton paper, black Egyptian tea

@ard_art_institution_

#Mixedmedia
#emergingartist #installationart #africancontemporaryart taken in Cairo القاهرهEgyptمصر by @david_mfayek

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Counter-spaces,2023
Toned cyanotype print on canvas
Cm 75x57

The medina’s structure controls crowds by limiting movement, enabling surveillance, and fragmenting space to prevent large- scale gatherings.

📸@mourad_boulhana
@montressoartfoundation
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#artistoninstagram #davidmichelfayek
#africancontemporaryart #contemporaryart #cyanotype #alternativeprocess #blue
#contemporarypainting #morocco
#medina #africanculturefund #maghreb #afriquedunord #printmaking #egyptianartist
#ybag #artcollector #mixedmediapainting #emergingartist #abstraction #curatedeye taken in Montresso Art Foundation - Jardin Rouge by @david_mfayek

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