Emir Farah
               



CV                   


Acces to the source
Esther Montoriol Gallery
Salt, Clay, Wood, Iron, Stainless Steel, Copper, Oil on canvas and Tablet
Variable dimensions
2022


The Performativity of cults
Universitat de Barcelona
mud, cables and white chair
variable dimension
2022
Domestic Arcanes
Installation view 
Barcelona, Spain  (on development)
¿Qué tan liviano es un objeto?
Espronceda Institute of Arts & Culture
Alabaster rock, copper wire, wood structure and reflectant fabric.
variable dimensions
2021




Residual System
Universitat de Barcelona
mud, cables and white chair
150x250x150cm
2022
Archaeology of an invisible link
Universitat de Barcelona
Copper, gems, salt, led lights and acrilic
variable dimensions
2021



Project: Calf
Somewhere in the south of the world 
TV intervention, microchips, motherboards, arduino, wood, acrilic panel
43x45x63cm
2020
The lightness of mountains
Universitat de Barcelona
Charcoal, rock and Himalayan paper
variable dimensions
2021
Wetlands
Casa Nacional del Bicentenario  FNA
Oil paintings
variable dimensions
 2020




¿Cómo enchufar lo sagrado?
Fabra i Coats - Sant Andreu Contemporani
drawings, oil paintings and installations.
on going project 2026-2027
Allegories of a fabricated time
Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica
Oil paintings
variable dimensions
2020



























Emir Z. Gómez Farah is an Argentine artist and architect based in Barcelona whose practice explores systems of belief, symbolic structures, spatial rituals, and contemporary material culture through installation, sculpture, drawing, and spatial research.

His work unfolds within a territory where the everyday begins to vibrate. He is interested in the objects and behaviors so close to us that they often become imperceptible: repeated gestures, small habits, inherited superstitions, personal rituals, and minimal signals that organize our relationship to the world. Within them emerges the possibility of a discreet ritual, a form of meaning pulsing beneath ordinary life.

Farah's practice investigates how systems of belief are constructed and sustained: symbolic frameworks that guide actions, produce meaning, and shape expectations about reality. Throughout history these systems have taken the form of religions, mythologies, customs, and cosmologies; today they also manifest through technical infrastructures, institutions, political narratives, everyday habits, and the countless personal beliefs individuals invent to navigate uncertainty. A football superstition, a lucky object, a domestic ritual, or a technological device can all be understood as different expressions of the same human impulse to create meaning and establish symbolic relationships with the unknown.

Approaching space as a sensitive body in which every material possesses weight, temperature, and tension, Farah works with combinations of organic and industrial elements — clay, copper, salt, wood, cables, light, and electronic components — to construct symbolic architectures and speculative devices where the technical and the ritual overlap. His installations operate as open systems of translation between the visible and the invisible, the rational and the imagined, transforming everyday objects into mediators of meaning. Within these environments, the ordinary becomes strange and the sacred appears stripped of solemnity, revealing the symbolic frameworks through which we inhabit, interpret, and negotiate the world.






Education
MFA Master in Research and Art Production 2022
University of Barcelona

BA Architecture and Urban Planning 2018
University of Belgrano

Graphic Design 2017
University of Belgrano



Solo Shows (selection)




Group Shows (selection)
En el principio era el mar, Galería Sur. Barcelona, España
On the flip side, Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture (Art Nou Primera Visió) - Barcelona, España
El Rizoma treu el cap, Fundació Felícia Fuster - Barcelona, España
112_Col·lapse, Esther Montoriol Gallery- Barcelona, España
Central Newbery Gallery - CABA, Argentina
14th edition Ruta de l’Art - Castelló d’ Empúries, España
25th Stripart Festival, Centro Cívico Guinardó, Barcelona, España
Galería Haber - Barcelona, España
4to Festival de videopoesía Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
4to premio Macsur - Mención - Museo Arte Contemporáneo del Sur - Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Otra Feria #5 Galería Laura Haber - CABA, Argentina
Escenarios Dinámicos, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Fondo Nacional de las Artes - CABA, Argentina
Salon des Beaux Arts - Société Nationale des Beaux Arts - Carrusel du Louvre - Paris, Francia
Galería Arenales - CABA , Argentina
Mana Contemporary, Saatchi Gallery - Chicago, Illinois - EEUU
Museo de la Fundación Romulo Raggio - Vicente Lopez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Monumento Nacional Casa de los Diez - Santiago de Chile, Chile
Universidad de Belgrano - CABA, Argentina
Espacio de Memoria y Derechos Humanos (Ex ESMA) , CABA, Argentina


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2019
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2019
2018
2018
2018
2017



Grants and Residencies
Annual Grant SAC-FiC, Sant Andreu Contemporani - Fabra i Coats. Barcelona, Spain.   
Clínica Cazadores. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Proyecto PAC, Galería Gachi Prieto. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Espronceda Arts & Culture Grant. Barcelona, España.
Fabra i Coats Short Residency. Barcelona, España.
RARO Residency. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2026
2026
2026
2022
2022
2020

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