In her ever-evolving artistic practice, she experiments with different media (from photography and drawing to live performance), exploring issues of gender, body politics and cross-cultural identity through a feminist lens. Through her art, she engages with the cultural expectations and ideological restrictions that she confronts as a woman, as an artist and as a refugee. The artist negotiates language barriers whilst staging her ‘otherness’ using her body, voice, painting and gestural mark-making as means of communication.
A performance for camera that reflects on the artist’s feelings of rejection and social ostracism, in both her country of origin and the one she has been trying to settle to find safety and stability. In the UK, Farida has found that her search for equality would inevitably clash with the reality of racism and a climate of hostility towards migrants like her. From the coasts of Folkestone, just opposite the sharp white cliffs that face the turbulent waters of the English Channel, Farida is sitting on the ‘white’ rocks of an empty beach - her lone, naked, brown body staring towards an empty beach. There, she can finally scream - showing the aggression and vulnerability of a wounded animal.
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