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Borrowed Faces

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Photography, objects, lecture-performances

Borrowed Faces has been presented to date in a series of lecture-performances, archival boxes, large-scale drawing tableaux, and finally the first edition of a photo novel.
Fehras Publishing Practices focuses on individual cultural actors in Arab publishing in the late 1950s and 1960s, revealing a network of local and international institutions and conferences that courted them. The political interests of the great powers also entangle Arabic writing culture in a bipolar international context.

Faces_Archive_Fehras, Abstract from Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 - 2021, 21 files, collected and commented material by Fehras Publishing Practices of photographs, photocopies and texts

Abstract from Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2021, 21 files, collected and commented material by Fehras Publishing Practices of photographs, photocopies and texts

Borrowed Faces: Protagonists, 2019, hand drawings printed on flat non-woven wallpaper, 269 x 424 cm; Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2019, three wooden boxes contain 21 files, photographs, photocopies and texts, wooden showcase with photographs, photocopies, books, and magazines, boxes: 59 x 32 x 80 cm, vitrine: 186 x 63 x 80 cm installation view; Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition There Is Fiction in the Space Between, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2019

Fehras, Borrowed Faces: Protagonists, 2019, detail, hand drawings printed on flat non-woven wallpaper, 269 x 424 cm, installation view; Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition; There Is Fiction in the Space Between, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2019

Borrowed Faces: Protagonists, 2019, detail, hand drawings printed on flat non-woven wallpaper, 269 x 424 cm, installation view; Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition; There Is Fiction in the Space Between, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2019

Borrowed Faces: Protagonists, 2019, detail, hand drawings printed on flat non-woven wallpaper, 269 x 424 cm installation view; Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition; There Is Fiction in the Space Between, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2019

Borrowed Faces: Protagonists, 2019, detail, hand drawings printed on flat non-woven wallpaper, 269 x 424 cm, installation view;Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition; There Is Fiction in the Space Between, 2019, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2019, detail, wooden showcase with photographs, photocopies, books, and magazines, 186 x 63 x 80 cm, installation view; Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition There Is Fiction in the Space Between, 2019, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Borrowed Faces: Protagonists, 2019, hand drawings printed on flat non-woven wallpaper, 269 x 424 cm; Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2019, three wooden boxes contain 21 files, photographs, photocopies and texts, wooden showcase with photographs, photocopies, books, and magazines, boxes: 59 x 32 x 80 cm, vitrine: 186 x 63 x 80 cm, installation view;Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition; There Is Fiction in the Space Between, 2019, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2019, detail, 3 wooden boxes contain 21 files, photographs, photocopies and texts, 59 x 32 x 80 cm, installation view Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition There Is Fiction in the Space Between, 2019, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2019, detail, 3 wooden boxes contain 21 files, photographs, photocopies and texts, 59 x 32 x 80 cm, installation view; Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition There Is Fiction in the Space Between, 2019, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Fehras, Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2019, detail, 3 wooden boxes contain 21 files, photographs, photocopies and texts, 59 x 32 x 80 cm, installation view; Borrowed Faces: A Prologue. Stories of Publishers During the Cold War in the group exhibition There Is Fiction in the Space Between, 2019, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Abstract from Borrowed Faces: Archiv, 2018 – 2021, 21 files, collected and commented material by Fehras Publishing Practices of photographs, photocopies and texts

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 05, page no. 01, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 05, page no. 02, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 05, page no. 03, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 05, page no. 04, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 05, page no. 05, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 05, page no. 06, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 07, page no. 01, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 07, page no. 02, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 07, page no. 03, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 07, page no. 04, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 25, page no. 01, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 25, page no. 02, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 25, page no. 03, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 25, page no. 04, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 25, page no. 05, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 25, page no. 06, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 29, page no. 01, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 29, page no. 02, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 29, page no. 03, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 29, page no. 04, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Borrowed Faces: Scene no. 29, page no. 05, 2020, frames with photograph, colour, digital print, 30 x 45 cm

Archive_Fehras, From Borrowed Faces, issue no. 1, photo novel, 136 pages, 24 x 33,2 cm, printed in Arabic and English, 1000 copies; published by Fehras Publishing Practices

From Borrowed Faces, issue no. 1, photo novel, 136 pages, 24 x 33,2 cm, printed in Arabic and English, 1000 copies; published by Fehras Publishing Practices

archive, censorship, cold war, oral history, publishing

Fehras Publishing Practices

Fehras Publishing Practices (Kenan Darwich, Omar Nicolas, Sami Rustom) is an artist collective and a publishing house established in Berlin in 2015. It was founded as a response to mounting questions concerning the history and the presence of art and publishing in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the diaspora. The mission of Fehras is to research the issue of publishing as a subject by observing and experimenting with its forms, attempting in this way to create a new, more extensive culture of critical engagement. The research focus of Fehras is based on the interrelation between cultures and publishing, which includes different fields of languages, archives, and arts. The projects, publications, and activities of Fehras Publishing Practices focus on archival materials (such as journalistic, radio, television, cinema, and digital archives), books, and magazines, libraries and readings, sound materials, publishing practices within the field of performance and visual arts and the transformation of cultural language in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.