Nadim Abbas is a visual artist. His work explores technologies of perception, culminating in the construction of complex set pieces where objects exist in an ambiguous relationship with their own image, and bodies succumb to the seduction of space.
Nadim Abbas (b.1980, Hong Kong) lives and works in Hong Kong. He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, and received a Master of Philosophy from the University of Hong Kong. In 2014, Abbas was awarded with the Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship and the HK Arts Development Award (Young Artist / Visual Arts). Recent exhibitions include: The Last Vehicle, UCCA, Beijing; 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York; Unseen Existence, HK Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Going, going, until I meet the tide, Busan Biennale 2014; The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam; and Tetraphilia, Third Floor Hermés, Singapore.
Nadim Abbas, The Last Vehicle, 2016. Mixed media installation with durational performance. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.