Nabilah Nordin’s materially driven practice explores the formal possibilities and surface potential of sculpture. Her elaborate abstract works are unruly, interlacing calligraphic lines with voluminous masses in dense configurations. She is primarily interested in expressing the physicality of tension: how sculpture can embody the underlying forces of natural phenomena, such as growth, depletion, decay, collapse, and entanglement. Her structures often appear precarious, propped up with stilts, scaffolds, and makeshift supports borrowed from the industrial world, interrupting the logic of their organic shapes. Nordin persistently undermines the expectations of her chosen mediums, upending the material hierarchies and aesthetic values associated with her materials.
Nabilah Nordin is represented by Neon Parc, Naarm/Melbourne.