Atmospheric Perspective
Amjad Faur, a University of Oregon graduate, is getting ready to showcase some of his work at PDX Contemporary Art. The showcase run from April 5th to April 30th.
From a statement about the showcase.
I have been working for over a decade with large format photography and it is still the means by which I conceptualize, associate and produce my work. There is a meditative and decidedly intentional quality built in to every image that stems tangibly from the very materials they are made of. My images are often constructed in a studio, within a controlled environment and require much in the way of sculptural and spatial problem solving. The images are contingent on having been shot “in camera” so as to reinforce the visual abstractions contained within them. In contrast, the visual content of the images is mostly informed by the transitional and elastic spaces found in the ethnic, political and religious labyrinth of the Middle East; a region whose narratives are so often borne of both the control and immediacy of images and their symbolic weight.
Thank you Amjad for taking the time.
My name is… Amjad Saleh Muhammad Tawfiq Eid Saleh Al-Faur
I am… ceaselessly moved by Giotto and Fra Angelico.
I like it when… circus animals take their revenge on their captors.
One thing I wish the Northwest would share with the world is… the Black Lodge.
One thing I wish the world would share with the Northwest is… the understanding that self-conscious irony has never been interesting.
Something I have coming up is… a show of photographs at PDX Contemporary Art.
This is exciting because… it’s my first solo exhibition in Portland in what I believe to be the region’s best gallery. It is also exciting to have a forum for this work which I made as a humble monument to the dispossessed people of Palestine.
Future Ruins
Separation Wall
Stone’s Throw
The Fattened Calf
For More information visit pdxcontemporaryart.com.