Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
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AUGUSTINE PAREDES“FEATHERING THE FACT”
“FEATHERING THE FACT”
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 6pm
Admission
5 EUR, reduced 3 EUR. FFF members and students with a valid ID card have free admission.
Location
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30–32
60311 Frankfurt
Portrait Augustine Paredes, © the artist, 2025
“Feathering the Fact” is Augustine Paredes’ proposal to reflect on photography as a truth-teller by looking at images from Mindanao, the second-largest island in the Philippines, during the Pacific War. Moving through found photographs, essays, and archives, this presentation aims to understand how the camera can both record and invent an image. How can a recorded document become a site of fiction? How can history persist through acts of framing and forgetting?
“Feathering the Fact” is a continuation of Augustine's artistic inquiry into the post-colonial Filipino identity, while asking what it means to gaze — and to be gazed upon — through images that waver between evidence and imagination.
Augustine Paredes, Darlings Between Fires (Scarred Ear), 2025, Courtesy of the Artist, © Augustine Paredes, 2025
Augustine Paredes (* 1994, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, Philippines) is a multi-disciplinary artist questioning what it means to desire identity, and longing within the light of migration. His expanded photographic practice revolves and evolves in questioning the post-colonial identity of a Filipino in the diaspora through different artistic mediums, traditional materials, and historical narratives. He works with image-making via photography, painting, poetry, performance, and installation.
Augustine authored art and poetry books entitled Conversations at the end of the universe (2020), Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys (2021), Happy to be here to be happy (2022), The Bitter Taste of Sweetness (2022), and Slow Disco (2024).
He is a co-founder of Sa Tahanan Collective along with curator Anna Bernice delos Reyes, aiming to create a platform for Filipino art and creatives through exhibitions and collaborations.
Parades is currently pursuing an MFA at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main under Prof. Haegue Yang. Currently, two of his series are on view in the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt exhibition “New Beginnings: Philippine Photographic Art” until January 11, 2026. He is the 2025 recipient of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship, with an exhibition at Museum Wiesbaden. Paredes work has also been recognized with the AIR Offenbach grant, SEAF Scholarship, and support from the Art Jameel Research & Practice Platform.
FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT
The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is one of the leading centres of photography in Europe. As an exhibition space, institution and event forum the FFF deals with all types and aspects of photography. Since its founding in 1984 it has presented more than 300 exhibitions with historic and contemporary artists. Additionally, the programme of the FFF comprises of regular workshops, talks and discussions with internationally renowned photographers, artists and experts.
