GAVIN TURK

Box, 2002

Sha Tin, 1994

FEATURED ARTIST: Nadim Abbas, Tetra-safe, 2013. Stainless steel, glass, tap water, AquaSafe. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.

FEATURED ARTIST: Nadim Abbas

Nadim Abbas is a visual artist. His work explores technologies of perception, culminating in the construction of complex set pieces where objects exist in an ambiguous relationship with their own image, and bodies succumb to the seduction of space. 

Nadim Abbas (b.1980, Hong Kong) lives and works in Hong Kong. He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, and received a Master of Philosophy from the University of Hong Kong. In 2014, Abbas was awarded with the Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship and the HK Arts Development Award (Young Artist / Visual Arts). Recent exhibitions include: The Last Vehicle, UCCA, Beijing; 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York; Unseen Existence, HK Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Going, going, until I meet the tide, Busan Biennale 2014; The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam; and Tetraphilia, Third Floor Hermés, Singapore.

Nadim Abbas, The Last Vehicle, 2016. Mixed media installation with durational performance. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

A smashed Fiat painted in pink nail polish…

(wtf, I’ve got a Panda myself..)

Hum, Hum, Hummm

Steffani Jemison: Escaped Lunatic | MoMA

Steffani Jemison’s video Escaped Lunatic explores the image of running black bodies. Watch the work in full on our website.

The video borrows its narrative structure from early 20th-century cinema—the chase genre in particular—which often depicted African Americans in scenes of flight from various forms of authority. Shooting the work with a Houston-based parkour team when she was living in that city, Jemison links a structure borrowed from early cinema to a contemporary scene, boldly linking the unjust conditions of urban life for black folks across time.

[Steffani Jemison. Escaped Lunatic. 2010–11. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2016 Steffani Jemison]