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In the name
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah| 2015 | 140 x 65 x 27cm | tinted resin, steel gambrel, galvanised chain
Exhibition history
In the name
Alaska Projects NSW 2015
Wynne Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales 2015
WA Focus - Abdul Abdullah and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
Art Gallery of Western Australia 2015
Curated by Robert Cook
Dead Things - Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Anna Louise Richardson
Castlemaine State Fair 2019
Everything is true
John Curtin Gallery, Perth Festival 2021
Curated by Chris Malcom
Free State - Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Art Gallery of South Australia 2016
Curated by Sebastian Goldspink
I would sit with the yearlings, wiping snot from their nostrils and staring into their bulging yellow eyes, buried in the smell of wet wool. Facing death with a whispered prayer, those eyes glazed blue with a spasm of black shit and a spray of arterial red against the asbestos fence.
In the name invites you into the bright recesses of Abdul-Rahman Abdullah’s childhood memories, when the scarcity of halal meat supplies brought animal slaughter and butchery into the suburban backyard. The pragmatic nature of life and death in the service of dinner became an unspoken ritual of the home, a bloody expression of the sacrosanct enacted behind closed doors. The explores the sense of duality embedded within the Muslim Australian experience, an innate understanding that axioms of the home tend to falter at the front door.