SAartsEmerging » Ismail Farouk

Filed under:stimulus, reviews, theory, re-blog tidbits, south african art, art, uncategorical — posted by nathaniel on 16 June 2006 @ 9:48 pm

SAartsEmerging » Ismail Farouk

SAarts has an awesome write-up on the artist’s work (by Rat Western). Sampling:

Whether it be a film on a continuous animated loop, a structured video installation, a performance work or a still image; there is a dynamism which occurs between Farouk’s geographer’s observations of the unfair logic of exchanges which characterizes urban living in the developing world today and his artist’s eye for rhythm, framing and irony.

read on…