Fayo Said
Fayo Said works at Framer Framed as a digital media producer. In this role, she develops content strategy and creates engaging video, audio and textual content.
She is a cultural producer, curator and image maker from the Netherlands by way of Oromia, Ethiopia. In her research and artistic practice, she is interested in Afrodiasporic archives, especially in Horn of African contexts. Other research areas explore the perception of Islamic visual arts in Africa.
Through her self-initiated project, Oromia Records, she conducts ongoing artistic research that engages with cultural, historical and artistic materials of the Oromo. Through long-term projects guided by a critical lens, the platform aims to offer a new approach to the study of Oromo cultural heritage within the context of Ethiopia and diaspora.
In 2020, she co-founded the Association for Black Art_ists e.V., a platform that works to support Black artists and archivists in Europe. The organisation has produced numerous projects and artistic experiences in Germany and the Netherlands. From 2022 to 2023, she was a guest fellow at PACT Zollverein, allowing her to gain time and space to further develop her artistic practice.
She has given and moderated talks and workshops about Black Archives and Archiving while Black in various locations including the Internationales Frauen* Film Fest, Institute of Art History of University of Zurich and AfroDiaspora 2.0 e.V.
