Faye Fayerman is a Canadian-born Artist and Filmmaker whose experimental films explore the spaces between everything and nothing—fleeting intervals where time loosens and presence lingers, revealing the weight of seemingly inconsequential moments. They invite stillness, connection, and observation—asking what remains when narrative dissolves and experience is held only as presence, unmeasured and momentary. Her practice moves across painting, lens-based work, sound, and experimental film, exploring the fleeting thresholds where perception shifts. She works within intervals that resist narrative—the pauses between gestures—where time loosens and presence lingers. Painting and film function as parallel frames: one condenses movement and sensation; the other unfolds time beyond sequence, inviting the viewer to dwell in the intangible. Sound is central to this process, not as accompaniment but as a structural force shaping how an image is felt. My installation In C5, premiered at the Banff Centre for the Arts, transformed tonal frequency into a spatial field of sensation.
Her films dwell between everything and nothing, revealing the weight of seemingly inconsequential moments. They invite stillness, connection, and observation—asking what remains when narrative dissolves and experience is held only as presence, unmeasured and momentary.
After three decades in New York City, she now works from Vancouver, and continues to create artwork that blurs boundaries between image, sound, and the quiet architecture of perception. Her films have received awards and screened internationally, alongside sound installations and visual works exhibited in museums and galleries across North America and Europe, with works held in museum and private collections. Her sound installation, In C5 debuted at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and her award-winning experimental films dwell in the spaces between everything and nothing—the fleeting wonder of life in motion.
Through painting, lens-based works, and teaching in New York, San Francisco, Montreal, and Vancouver, she searches for humanness in the quiet thresholds of time and nature. Drawing from a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, lens-based art, and sound, her work dissolves narrative, focusing instead on sensation, observation, and the humanness within transient moments.