Nabilah Nordin

About the work

Expanding upon her recent material investigations into bronze casting, Nordin’s work ‘Soda Rub’ was built using furniture off-cuts and studio detritus. This assemblage was then encased and sculpted with wax to become a new abstract form, accentuated by its tactile and sensorial qualities. After casting the work in bronze, Nordin applied industrial automotive car paint to the surface, blending the organic elements of the work with the aesthetic language of industrial manufacturing. As with all of Nordin’s sculptures, the surfaces are treated as disguises and sites of performance, celebrating a rich material vocabulary that strives to create a new sculptural language.

About the artist

Born 1991, Singapore.

Lives and works Los Angeles, America

Nabilah Nordin works through an understanding of materiality to create sensual and intuitive abstract sculptures. Nordin’s sculptures are beguilingly playful with their visceral, oozy, drippy, and rough surfaces, offering the viewer an encounter with fantastical or seemingly impossible other worlds. Utilising non-traditional sculptural materials and a process Nordin refers to as ‘unlearning,’ the artist eschews sculptural traditions in an attempt to create her own idiosyncratic sculptural language. Interested in material inventions, her installations embrace wonky craftwork, playfully celebrating the visceral and anthropomorphic qualities of materials.

 

 

Represented by

Neon Parc