Nabilah Nordin





SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024Primary Matter
Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
2023The Australian Embassy
Washington DC, United States
 2023The National 4: Australian Art Now
Art Gallery of New South Wales
2022Prop Shop
Neon Parc, Melbourne
2021Birdbrush and Other Essentials
Heide MOMA, Melbourne
2021Please Do Not Eat the Sculptures
Missing Persons, Melbourne
2020Covergirl Adhesives
COMA Gallery, Sydney
2019An Obstacle in Every Direction
Singapore Biennale, Singapore


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024Undo the Day
National Art School, Sydney
2023Keith Sonnier: Live in Your Head
Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
2023Fantastic Forms
Bundanon Art Museum, Bundanon
2023So Red It Looks Black
COMA Gallery, Sydney
2022Parade for the Moon
RISING, Melbourne
2021Connecting the World through Sculpture
MUMA Monash, Melbourne








Primary Matter
Parrasch Heijnen




(1) Vocabulary, 2024, rubber, epoxy modeling compound, urethane colorants, wood 80 x 82 x 20 inches

(2) Vocabulary (detail view)

(3) Ghost, 2024, wood, epoxy modeling compound, wire mesh, automotive paint, solvent 70-3/4 x 42 x 32 inches

(4) Ghost (detail view)

(5) Chronology, 2024, powdered marble, limestone, oxide pigment, sand, epoxy modeling compound, wire mesh, wood 62 x 33 x 32 inches

(6) Chronology (detail view)

(7) Scaffold, 2024, acrylic polymer, celluclay, epoxy modeling compound, wood, wood stain 33 x 23 x 25-1/2 inches

(8) Scaffold (detail view)

(9) Luster, 2024, pyrite dust, pyrite, diamond flakes, sand, wood, wire mesh, epoxy modeling compound, varnish 32 x 20 x 19 inches

(10) Luster (detail view)

(11) Archive, 2024, oxidizing iron paint, epoxy modeling compound, wood 29-1/2 x 17 x 23 inches

(12) Archive (detail view)

(13) Gathering, 2024, exterior epoxy modeling compound, marble chips, copper coins, turquoise stone, foam, wood, pigment, marine sealant, oxide, cement, 106 x 43 x 62 inches

(14) Gathering (detail view)

Exhibition Statement
July 13–August 10, 2024

Parrasch Heijnen is pleased to present Nabilah Nordin: Primary Matter, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Los Angeles, CA-based artist Nabilah Nordin (b. 1991, Singapore).

Nordin’s sculptures dance with gravity and an internal buoyancy that evokes the process of their creation. The artist’s organic yet constructed forms unfurl, topple, grow, and balance, as each work’s uniformity in color is juxtaposed in a vibrant assemblage of shapes, meditating within a lyrical solidity. Nordin’s works are adorned with a texture implicative of an internal life, combining elements of raw earth with new world materials, blurring the lines between the natural and the manufactured with “skins” that adapt to their given environment. Her process is an investigation of surface and material: “the pretense of how things appear: what may look like a stone object, or a rusted chunk of metal is actually the ‘skin’ pretending and performing as something else,” she explains.

“I want my sculptures to seduce people with the tactility of their physical qualities - a sharp prick of pyrite; the crunch of stone under foot. I want to trigger a desire for material sensation and to make people hyper-aware of their bodies. I try to do this by animating commonly found raw or artificial materials, from rubber mulch to stone and marble, and transform them into new life-forms. This is the spirit of Primary Matter.”





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