Apókryphos (2018–19) presents a series of 24 photographs reproduced
from Cherine Fahd’s family archive, depicting her Grandfather’s
funeral and burial in 1975, when the artist was only two years old.
Taken by an unknown photographer, Fahd overlays these images with a
numerical system of annotations and footnotes, forensically yet
intimately speculating upon the mysteries of the event. Derived from
the Ancient Greek term apókryphos, meaning ‘hidden, concealed or
obscure’, Fahd renders public that which is generally kept private:
the grief of losing a loved one, and the transgressive act of
documenting those who gather to mourn. Offering a visual and literary
response to the ritual of mourning, Apókryphos considers the physical
ways in which human emotions are visualised, experienced and
witnessed.
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