NAZERUL
KHAIRY BEN-DZULKEFLIOFFERINGS TO UNSEEN COLLABORATORS/A PETITION TO THOSE WHO BENEFIT FROM HOLES IN THE GROUND.
Exhibitions
2019 Patches of Hope and Resistance, Spectrum Project Space ECU.
2019 Full Circle. Solo Exhibition, Cage Gallery, North Metropolitan TAFE.
2019 Slipstream, Gallery Central.
Private collections, Perth.
Having taken different iterations and incarnations, this ongoing work discusses the artist and their contribution to the degradation of the natural environment through benefiting from the mining industry, consumerism and contributing to post-consumer waste in the name of art-making. Taking cue from the Malay cultural resource hoarding game of Congkak (Mankala), both the fired and unfired bone dry objects were fashioned as guardians and leaking vessels.
The first iteration of unfired clay objects were exhibited as part of the group exhibition Patches of Hope and Resistance at the Spectrum Project Space in Edith Cowan University.
The second manifestation took the idea forward and explored how artists could be more mindful of their environment and those that dwell within this shared ecosystem in the form of gods, spirits, trees and the earth herself. At Nazerul’s solo exhibition at the Cage Galery in North Metropolitan TAFE, a video of the bone-dry objects slowly dissolving into water in a tank confronted the viewers and invited them to think about how artists might be able to reduce consumption and return to the earth what is rightfully hers.
Medium
Glazed stoneware, bone-dry raku clay sculptures & single channel video
Photo credits
Nazerul Ben-Dzulkefli
Glazed stoneware, bone-dry raku clay sculptures & single channel video
Photo credits
Nazerul Ben-Dzulkefli
