Rand Abdul Jabbar Iraq, b. 1990
Earthly Wonders, Celestial Beings, 2019-ongoing
Glazed stoneware
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the Artist
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Examining historic, cultural and archaeological narratives, Abdul Jabbar interrogates the fragility of tangible heritage to create and compose forms that draw on Mesopotamian artefacts, architecture and mythology. The series 'Earthly...
Examining historic, cultural and archaeological narratives, Abdul Jabbar interrogates the fragility of tangible heritage to create and compose forms that draw on Mesopotamian artefacts, architecture and mythology. The series 'Earthly Wonders, Celestial Beings' emerges from a study of the formal and material attributes of ancient vestiges encountered in museum collections, archives and across archaeological sites while also drawing on and capturing the tales and myths conveyed through what survives of written tablets. Adopting clay as a medium, Abdul Jabbar engages with ancestral and embodied knowledge to set up a conversation across the past and present in the language of reverberating forms. Like an ever expanding alphabet of gestures, It is envisioned as an installation of sculptures that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries to compose a field of discoveries – each object embodying a nascent history, while collectively in dialogue. To encounter the work is to feel displaced and immersed within an alternative, distorted time and space.
Exhibitions
Art Here 2022, 18 November 2022 - 19 March 2023, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE; Rand Abdul Jabbar: Earthly Wonders, Celestial Beings, 11 June - 29 June 2019, NYUAD, Project Space, Abu Dhabi, UAE.Join Mailing List
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