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① Artwork:
Untitled (Brick Candle)
Each candle is unique and has a different scent, using varying combinations of petrichor, soil, mud, metal, and water. Standing upright and resembling a portrait, these flesh-like brick candles embody messages of creation and destruction. In his recent work, Karmali references the links between the body, building vernaculars and shifting emotional states—from construction to destruction and vice versa.
Tahir Carl Karmali's work spans photography, installation, papermaking, sculpture, and sound, concentrating thematically on migration, landscape/geology, labor, and belonging. Through the use of material, Karmali closes the distance and blurs the boundaries between the experience of the artist and the viewer by incorporating multiple senses and creating an environment of thought and introspection.
③ Artist:
Tahir Carl Karmali's work spans photography, installation, papermaking, sculpture, and sound, concentrating thematically on migration, landscape/geology, labor, and belonging. Through the use of material, Karmali closes the distance and blurs the boundaries between the experience of the artist and the viewer by incorporating multiple senses and creating an environment of thought and introspection.
Tahir Carl Karmali was born in 1987 in Nairobi, Kenya, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY.
Karmali has mounted solo exhibitions at Management in New York, NY; Circle Gallery in Nairobi, Kenya; and Sotheby’s Institute in New York, NY.
He has participated in recent group exhibitions such as Invocations at Circle Art Agency in Nairobi, Kenya; Open Call at The Shed in New York, NY; Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture at Leslie Lohman Museum in New York, NY; Second Careers at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, OH; and Making Africa at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Blanton Museum in Houston, CCCB in Barcelona, Guggenheim Bilbao, and elsewhere.
Karmali was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency. He was also an artist in residence at The Watermill Center and Montello Foundation, Triangle Arts Association, Pioneer Works, Trestle Gallery, the MacDowell Colony, and BRIC.
Each candle is unique and has a different scent, using varying combinations of petrichor, soil, mud, metal, and water. Standing upright and resembling a portrait, these flesh-like brick candles embody messages of creation and destruction. In his recent work, Karmali references the links between the body, building vernaculars, and shifting emotional states—from construction to destruction and vice versa.More
- Unframed
- Edition of 50
- Please note that this candle will ship the week of December 9th.
