Phosphorus

Nov 3

Tarik Ahlip
Phosphorus
17 November - 16 December, 2022

Close up, Tarik Ahlip, If a City is a Mouth..., 2022. Right side, sandy sculpture with line textures on white background. Center top of sculpture, patch of white plaster with green stains and long patch of yellow. — Tarik Ahlip, *If a City is a Mouth, the Country is a hollow Cheek* (detail), 2022, plaster, sand, pigment, Image courtesy of the artist.

Artist Statement

Phosphorus is a presentation of two bodies of sculptural relief works: If a City is a Mouth, the Country is a Hollow Cheek and Phosphorus. The works speak of abundance, overburden, and decline.

Installation view, Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus, 2022. Rectangular textured sand sculpture with blue center installed on free standing white wall. Behind, left & right, two white walls with a sand sculpture on each. — Tarik Ahlip, *Phosphorus*, 2022, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Jessica Maurer.

Accompanying the works will be the Sydney premier screening of Paradise. Paradise is a meditation on ritual, the religious strictures around the act of killing for sustenance, and the migrant act of reinvention. The film considers the ethical imprint of a theologically inflected worldview, and post Enlightenment epistemologies.

Paradise was commissioned by West Space, Melbourne and premiered at the space in March 2022.