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Posted On: June 24th 2025, 03:38 pm
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
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
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