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Abou Farman

Abou Farman is an artist and anthropologist teaching at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Clerks of the Passage. As part of the artist duo caraballo-farman, he has exhibited work internationally in galleries, museums and other venues, including at the Tate Modern, UK; PS1/MOMA, NY, and the Havana Biennial. He is producer and co-writer of a 2016 narrative feature film, Icaros: A Vision, co-directed by Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi, slated for theatrical release on May 19.

In Defense of Sanctuary

April 6, 2017
To move away from sanctuary by dismissing it as “merely symbolic” is either “merely ignorant” or “merely cowardly.”