Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
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Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Abdul’s older brother, presents a meticulously carved camel encircled by a tight spiral of rope to symbolise the practical elements of faith as they were learnt in his childhood. Here spiritual knowledge and Abdul-Rahman’s memories of lessons from his mother about potentially dangerous Australian fauna converge.
An entire room is constructed for Rubaba Haider’s installation Like a Shadow; I Am and I Am Not. Within it, hundreds of pins hang by threads from the ceiling bathed in orange light. Despite the odd tangle, this work is visually ethereal and a powerful reflection on threads of life, pain, healing and her mother.
This exhibition presents the Generation Y, echo-boomer or Millennum Muslim experience as one that is unfolding in a diversity of ways, with art from a variety of ethnicities, looking at a range of issues from the intimately personal to the bitingly political.
Here&Now16/GenYM runs until July 7.
Here&Now16/GenYM
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
REVIEWLAETITIA WILSON