Hamishi Farah’s work Daniel Boyd & Mikala Dwyer (2016) is about the body, difference, friendship and the impossibility of constituency. 

‘The best way to ruin something is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever there’s a body around you see its faults. Theory proves that. The body of a famous critic came to my studio the other day. Now I don’t believe its writings anymore. Its writings became theatre. And the
presence of all that flesh made me think of all the things the writings didn’t speak of…of what was left out. Authoritative voices must be disembodied to work. A philosopher should never be seen! It’s so sad it makes you think of money, prostitution. I would never make that mistake. I would never give myself a physical manifestation. So my voice keeps living, living by becoming an abstraction.’

Hamishi Farah – March 2016