Fadi Al-Hamwi

Statement

Fadi al-Hamwi (b.1986, Damascus) lives and works in Berlin. He studied oil and mural painting at the Damascus Academy of Fine Arts (2010-2006). Al-Hamwi concerns himself with lending physical shape to the human experience of war, His practice began investigating the latent violence in societal constructs and evolved as actual violence began to take place around him in Damascus in 2011. He explores the relationship between dormant and actualised expressions of violence and desire, as well as the dialogue between construction and destruction and revealing a deeply personal/social process of reckoning.

GlogauAIR Project

Human mistake is a performance installation project based on a solo performer deals with 3 main objects: Glass, metal basin and vibration motors.

It is an investigation to consider the rituals of mistakes: from activating the memory of the body, acknowledging the history of it, paying tribute of its own mistakes, to translate and embody the chances of repairing what has been broken or accepting and honouring the damages.

The layers within the movements trying to study and explore the possibilities that cause a human mistake (consciously and subconsciously) accidentally or intentionally and the actions/reactions beneath it.cription.

Perfomance and Sculpture.

CV Summary

Selected exhibitions

• 2020
  bis hierher und nicht weiter, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
  Sugar Forever Performance installation, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Alfred-Scholz-Platz, Berlin, Germany
• 2019
  Lost in translation, De Warande Expo, Turnhout, Belgium
  While You Were Sleeping II, CAP Kuwait, Kuwait.
• 2018
  The Others Fair, Solo booth with East of Elsewhere, Turin, Italy
  Behind the lines at “The Reach Gallery Museum” , BC, Canada.
• 2017
  Journey of Belonging , CAA Berlin, Positions Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  L’Art en Mouvement , Nice Solidair du Monde, Nice, France.
  100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art, Institut du Monde Arabe and Barjeel Art Foundation, Paris, France.

Artist talk

• 2017 – European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach, Austria.
• 2016 – Bucharest art week, Bucharest, Romania.
• 2015 – CPH:DOX, Copenhagen documentary film festival, Denmark.

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