Jala Wahid, Akh Milk Bile Threat at Seventeen

9th September to 14th October 2017
PV Friday 8th September 6pm

 

The intestines, cut out with adamant
and thrown from warm belly to the tomb-cold steel tray
were left out for a long time, barely shaded.
The tray became warmer than the beast’s blood,
black foam surrounded the pellucid flesh
and in it grew a soupy vapour. At first it touched
on the putrid matter, swathed in decrepit gown,
from there it departed silently and split
open above a congealed pool of oil, akh,
the poisonous sound of a bezoar dropping into
fuscous liquor.

 

Text by Thea Smith

 

Installation View 1

 

Installation View 2

Installation View 3

Installation View 4

Final Blade, 2017
Jesmonite
32 x 175 x 12 cm

 

Detail of Beaten Tender, 2017
Steel, gelatine, sugar, oil

Installation View 5

No Hold Too Strong, 2017
Jesmonite, aluminium, fat
In two parts
84 x 80 x 50 cm

Bare and Writhe, 2017
Steel, jesmonite, glass wax, grapefruit, honey
In two parts
175 x 46 x 21 cm

Bare and Writhe, 2017
Steel, jesmonite, glass wax, grapefruit, honey
In two parts
175 x 46 x 21 cm

Installation View 6

Eat Clay, Drink Dirty Water, 2017
Jesmonite
Edition of 3

Oh leander!, 2017
Single channel video with sound
4 minutes 15 seconds

Oh leander!, 2017
Single channel video with sound
4 minutes 15 seconds

Detail of Oh leander!, 2017

Detail of Oh leander!, 2017