For Fakhri El Ghezal, a photograph manipulates the body of the one who takes it, in a perpetual resonance, in an incessant going back and forth between the memory of the flesh and the “flesh” of the image. Images are also evanescent traces on the skin of the photograph. Faces and images, bodies and photographs are the two poles around which Fakhri El Ghezal’s photographic work revolves obsessively; like a slow and long movement of pickaxe that rises in the air and then plunges into the ground; along the years; the same dual seeding gestures by the wound. Then, comes the patience to let the fruit slowly appear, and to reap it; every time the same; each time different. It is a coming and going between faces and images, body and photographs, black and white, politics and intimacy, fiction and documentary, the self and the other.
Represented by Elmarsa gallery.