Adeela Suleman
Darkest Hour 3, 2021
Stainless steel cake piping nozzles, sink drain cover, cooking utensil, doughnut cutter padded with foam and rexine
13 x 11 x 16 in
Adeela Suleman
Darkest Hour 4, 2021
Stainless steel cake piping nozzles, sink drain cover, bathroom drain cover, cooking utensil jar, spoons, padded with foam and rexine
17 x 11 x 16 in
Adeela Suleman
Darkest Hour 5, 2021
Stainless steel crescent pot strainer, brass cake piping nozzles, sink drain cover, small bowls, cooking utensil
12 x 11 x 15.50 in
Adeela Suleman’s fascination with violence, especially deathly violence, which is always adjunct to radical religiosity, comes from a life time spent in Karachi, Pakistan. Days there are often spent worrying about a safe route to work and back, about a child or partner who is late and not answering their phone, about little things that would not be worry-worthy in another setting.
Suleman takes the moments, that she has lived through and that she has others live through, and turns them into art. Her shiny, beautifully crafted surfaces of stainless steel are made up of dead birds, rendered using traditional repousse technique. These birds represent the everyday, unsung victims of violence. They come together in flowing curtains, textured surfaces that drape walls, or create free-standing forms. These shimmering towers, in their adjacency and proportions, may remind the viewer of another set of two towers, and another September in New York.
Adeela Suleman
Darkest Hour 1, 2021
Steel cooking utensil, sink drain cover and small sauce bowl, layered with foam and cloth
18 x 10 x 15 in
Adeela Suleman
Darkest Hour 2, 2021
Steel cooking utensil, sink drain cover and small sauce bowl, layered with foam and cloth.
18 x 10 x 15 in
Visualization of Sculpture
Adeela Suleman
Rise I and II, 2021
Stainless steel with hand-beaten repousse work
42 x 42 x 246 in
Adeela Suleman
Rise I and II, 2021
Stainless steel with hand-beaten repousse work
42 x 42 x 246 in
Adeela Suleman
Untitled 1, 2021 (Detail)
Stainless steel with hand-beaten repousse work
42 x 42 x 246 in
Adeela Suleman
Untitled 1, 2021 (Detail)
Stainless steel with hand-beaten repousse work
42 x 42 x 246 in