Written By Tesha Malott

TARIK AHLIP


’PHOSPHORUS’
17 NOVEMBER–16 DECEMBER, 2022

Image: 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. 

Image: 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. 

Image: Installation view, Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus, 2022. Rectangular textured sand sculpture with blue center and green marks. On the wall behind, a vertical oval shaped sand sculpture with orange and yellow on the bottom.

Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus, 2022, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Jessica Maurer.

Image: Installation view, Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus, 2022. Key shaped sand sculpture, blue in center of top half, orange covering bottom thinner half. To the left, sculpture with orange & green circle in bottom left corner.

Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus, 2022, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Jessica Maurer.

Image: Installation view, Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus I, 2022. Sand sculpture with jagged edges like a shard. Top, glossy green material with yellow stripes. Middle, ridges of sand lines. Red and yellow circle at the bottom.

Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus I, 2022, plaster, pigment and sand, 710mm x 710mm. Photography by Jessica Maurer.

Image: Installation view, Tarik Ahlip, If a City is a Mouth..., 2022. Textured sand sculpture on the wall. Lines across the sculpture, interrupted by abstract shapes of yellow and green. In the bottom, a curved shape of red.

Tarik Ahlip, If a City is a Mouth, the Country is a hollow Cheek II, 2022, plaster, pigment and sand, 790 mm x 420 mm. Photography by Jessica Maurer.

Image: Installation view, Tarik Ahlip, Paradise, 2021-2022. Image of a yellow segmented dome structure projected onto a white free standing wall in the corner of the gallery.

Tarik Ahlip, Paradise, 2021-2022, video, 17 mins. Photography by Jessica Maurer.

 

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This project is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts: Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups.

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Tesha Malott
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