Artist Fahamu Pecou on 'This Face Behind This Mask Behind This Skin'

Artist Fahamu Pecou on 'This Face Behind This Mask Behind This Skin'

Fahamu Pecou. End of Safety: Introspection, 2025. Acrylic on canvas; 96 x 120. Image courtesy of the artist. © Fahamu Pecou For more than three decades, Atlanta-based artist and scholar Dr. Fahamu Pecou has been expanding how Black identity and masculinity are seen, discussed, and felt. His work moves between painting, performance, film, and theory, blending the intellectual with the visceral, grounded in lived experience. At the Frist Art Museu…