TARIK AHLIP
”PHOSPHORUS”
17 NOVEMBER–16 DECEMBER

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.

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.