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island is pleased to present Deadweight, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Nabilah Nordin. Nordin’s sculptures are characterized by their formal and material breadth. She builds, demolishes and reconfigures her forms so that they appear to teeter on the edge of collapse. Often working at scale, her distinct language has developed over the last decade in Australia, Asia, and most recently the United States.
For Deadweight, Nordin works in the guise of classical sculpture, adopting the appearance of excavated or preserved historical objects. The authoritative association of this trope is undercut by industrial interventions – a galvanized bolt protrudes from a bust; a dilapidated relic rests on a laminated stage. Each work contains a contradictory logic, traversing historical time, material life cycles, and its own physicality. Institution, for instance, appears to be a statuesque tower of bulky marble forms, stacked upon one another and connected by improbably delicate necks.…
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island is pleased to present Deadweight, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Nabilah Nordin. Nordin’s sculptures are characterized by their formal and material breadth. She builds, demolishes and reconfigures her forms so that they appear to teeter on the edge of collapse. Often working at scale, her distinct language has developed over the last decade in Australia, Asia, and most recently the United States.
For Deadweight, Nordin works in the guise of classical sculpture, adopting the appearance of excavated or preserved historical objects. The authoritative association of this trope is undercut by industrial interventions – a galvanized bolt protrudes from a bust; a dilapidated relic rests on a laminated stage. Each work contains a contradictory logic, traversing historical time, material life cycles, and its own physicality. Institution, for instance, appears to be a statuesque tower of bulky marble forms, stacked upon one another and connected by improbably delicate necks.…






















































































