Born in 1984 in Tehran, Arash Fayez is currently studying Architecture in Soureh University whilst being a professional photographer.
About his work, Ramblings of a flâneur, Sohrab Mahdavi says in an essay : “Let’s start with the most obvious. A flâneur has a rich tradition since Charles Baudelaire gave it his spin. To him, a flâneur was a free agent who loafed around the city without any particular objective. Detached, she nevertheless managed to bring the individual and the general audience together. A flâneur is an urban phenomenon. He roams the city and the act itself is the objective. What is brought about, as such, is less important than the peripatetic exercise. By extension, a flâneur lays no claim to discovery. She is autistic, suspended in a cacophonous space, under the sway of a diverse regime of signs that she is unable to compile or process. Thus, his act is suffused with randomness, of a kind that makes certainty about signs and events impossible. This lack of certainty is indeed the fulcrum on which her relationship with the general public rests. He offers to view that which doesn’t require interpretation, doesn’t bring surety and must be taken as what it is.”
Arash Fayez’s Polaroids
Ramblings of a Flaneur
Silk Road Gallery
103, Lavassani (Farmanieh) st.
Tehran 19368-39631
Iran
Tel : + 98 21 – 22727010
