Nabilah Nordin's 'Deadweight' at island, New York

island gallery in New York presents Deadweight, a solo exhibition by Singapore-born, New York-based artist Nabilah Nordin. The show features sculptures that adopt the guise of classical objects but are undercut by industrial interventions—galvanized bolts, laminated stages, exposed steel rods. Works like Institution stack marble-like forms on delicate necks, using scagliola, a 17th-century technique. The titular Deadweight presents a calcified object propped against a reflective yellow structure, mimicking archaeological display. Nordin's practice, developed over a decade in Australia, Asia, and the US, builds, demolishes, and reconfigures forms that teeter on collapse. Recent solo exhibitions include Parrasch Heijnen (Los Angeles), Neon Parc (Melbourne), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), and the Singapore Biennale. Her work is held in public collections such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Monash University Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, and MIIA Collection.