Neon Parc

Nabilah Nordin (b. 1991 Singapore, lives and works in Los Angeles). Nabilah Nordin’s materially driven practice explores the formal possibilities and surface potential of sculpture. She employs improvised construction methods to build elaborate abstract forms, dramatizing their physicality so that they seem to defy gravity or teeter on the edge of collapse. Often working at scale, Nordin subverts the language of monumental sculpture by incorporating unconventional materials, such as deflated balloons and resin-coated bread. Taking visual cues from her immediate surroundings, her recent works draw upon coalescing, entangled structures. The surfaces of her sculptures are treated as disguises and sites of performance, often mimicking the appearance of natural phenomena. However, she resists direct representation, embracing ambiguity and drawing attention to the tactile and sensorial qualities of her materials. In doing so, she seeks to invest inanimate objects with agency, vitality and humour.