Farah Way
Farah Way (born Leslie F Marem) is a French Caribbean visual artist based in Brighton. Her artistic practices call upon her education in Photography and Fine Arts and a rich cultural background.
Contextualising her work within the current era of persistent and globally divided computational photography, Farah reframes the role of the digital in photographic methods. Her current practice merges analogue and digital processes in an experimental approach to photography. The artist’s methods includes the manipulation of light in its physical form and the composition of montages through digital post-production.
Her ongoing project, titled Edge Of Radiance depicts the effect of light flaring out of the edges of bodies. Farah draws inspiration from Afrofuturism, quantum physics and Queer experiences to question how identities radiate beyond the physical body. Farah Way takes you on a journey that starts from the body moving towards the edges of the physical and revealing fragments of our inner worlds.
RECENT ACTIVITY
SUSSEX HUMANITIES LAB:
Queer Imaginaries is a workshop deliver as a part of Alternate Now collective. The aim of this workshop is to collaboratively explore Queer imaginaries and draw trajectories to our plural future.
BRIGHTON MUSEUM:
In celebration of BHM. Pop Up Fashion Shoot - Inspired by African photo studios
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ONCA GALLERY, FABRICA and HASTINGS ART FORUM :
Wheel n Come Again is a dynamic arts and film programme funded by Film Hub SE and Arts Council England. It presents an autumn series of film screenings across Brighton and Hastings, showing short and feature length films from the African and Caribbean diaspora, with artists presenting and engaging audiences in their explorations and responses to the themes.
The programme includes:
· feature films Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden (1983, 90 mins, US); Pelo Malo (Bad Hair), Mariana Rondón (2013, 85 mins, Venezuela); What My Mother Told Me, Frances Anne Solomon (1995, 57 mins, Trinidad & Tobago) and The Passion of Rememberance, Isaac Julien & Maureen Blackwood (1986, 95 mins, UK).
· short films Water Ritual #1, Barbara McCullough (1979, 6 mins, US ); Auntie, Lisa Harewood (2013, 16 mins, Barbados); and two additional short films TBC.
A unique aspect of Wheel n Come Again is that it brings together 4 Black female film curators/programmers (Althea Wolfe, Issey Osman, Maria Cabrera and Debbie Plentie) and 4 Black female artists - Tokini Fubara (animation), Monika Akila Richards (spoken word), Farah Way (photography) and Carla Armour (mixed media/installation)- who will create new art works in response to the films, exhibiting and presenting these along the way.
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TRAINING :
• 2022: Graphic Design course, Greater Brighton MET, Brighton UK
• 2021: Video Accelerator course, Creative Process Digital, Brighton UK
• 2018: Introduction to filmmaking course, Brighton Film school, Brighton UK
• 2016: Collodion tintype workshop with Riccardo Cavallari and Jacopo Emiliani, Autograph ABP, London UK
EDUCATION :
• 2010: Professional photography degree, Brassaï, Paris
• 2007: ART & Literature Degree, Lycée la Jetée, Martinique (Caribbean)
WORK EXPERIENCE :
Studio la plateforme, Paris, France www.laplateform.com
Studio 1+1, Saint-Ouen, France www.d3.fr
Les Studio de l’Olivier, Malakoff, France www.studios-olivier.com
Studio Mandarine Gennevilliers, France www.studio-mandarine.fr