Ismail Fayed

Ismail Fayed is a writer, critic and educator from Cairo. He is interested in interdisciplinary approaches in thinking about contemporary artistic practices and the way in which the political, economic and social contexts play a role in the dissemination and reception of those practices. Ismail sees social markers of identity (gender, class, race, ableism,etc.) as parameters that mediate our experiences but do not define them. In thinking about the archive, he conceives acts of collecting, remembering and examining material as gestures of care that are deeply political and inevitably human.