TARIK AHLIP
’PHOSPHORUS’
17 NOVEMBER–16 DECEMBER, 2022
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.
Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus, 2022, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Jessica Maurer.
Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus, 2022, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Jessica Maurer.
Tarik Ahlip, Phosphorus I, 2022, plaster, pigment and sand, 710mm x 710mm. Photography by Jessica Maurer.
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.
Tarik Ahlip, Paradise, 2021-2022, video, 17 mins. Photography by Jessica Maurer.
This project is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts: Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups.
