FAIROUZ EL TOM : Selected works : You who?

This series is a response to vacuous stereotypes about race.

Over a few weeks, I wrote down words I had read or heard throughout my life.

Some made me want to scream. At others I shook my head and rolled my eyes. A few even made me laugh in disbelief.⁠⠀

Follow the lin̶es – I

2019

Archival pigment print

45 × 45 cm

Words and sentences, heard or read.

Some arrived in embarrassed, hushed tones. Others as jokes, angry shouts or matter of fact remarks.

Some were hand written, others sprayed on walls. Some were printed and carefully placed on library stacks.

Each claimed to hold a piece of the truth about a group.