I have tried to create a space where the viewer strays from the everyday, the boundaries between reality and fiction break down, and the sense of place and time disrupts. Any attempt to reason only questions the very act of reasoning. My installations primarily work on and by affect, the feeling the visuals and the objects convey. My hope is that our sense of the "self" and being who we are ceases, even momentarily. I hope the space pushes the margins between our conscious and unconscious, tempting our imagination to conjure vivid memories from the past and images from a distant future.
It is an arduous task to find language to describe the most important element of my work- the feeling. For language will root and frame these works within a wider institutional discourse, ultimately locking the feeling from reaching our unconscious. Once language is inscribed into the work, the faculty of our unconscious shuts down and we the viewer will be forced to read it from our logical, conditioned conscious, forever stripping the work from ever reaching the depths of our mind.
Fazail Lutfi born in the Maldives, is an interdisciplinary artist. In his installations he usually uses the medium of video and sculptural elements to create a space where the affect, the experience and the sensations the work generates is central.
In 2001, Fazail received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He went on to do his Master of Fine Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Visual Arts and Media Production & Studies) from the University of Regina (Canada) in 2007. For him, an important element of his process and his work is its unspecificity, and ambivalence, opening spaces for interpretation and ambiguity.
Fazail currently resides in Melbourne, Australia and continues to explore themes around his own identities, memories, place and imagination.