Adam Hisham Ismail

Adam Hisham Ismail (b.1980) is an Egyptian/Australian artist whose practice echoes the mechanics and broken narratives of dreams and the elastic nature of memory. Mediating an uneasy conversation where the familiar and the strange intersect, his work has been described as “an anticipation of sound and kinesis”.    

Using flagrant pageantry, animal archetypes and idiolectic mythology, Ismail creates a series of formal and conceptual conundrums which invite the audience to construct their own narratives. Recent projects have expanded his work into more ambitious areas of sculptural installation, both in terms of scope and scale: theatrical landscapes set in vivarium-like display cases. Composite set buildings influenced by these installations are the basis for an ongoing photographic series. The works are steeped in personal mythos and speak about the human condition at large, the power environment has on its inhabitants, and of the fugitive beauty of fear, desire, and survival within it.

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Exhibitions

Artworks

ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Our worlds need us ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Our worlds need us
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Cambiones Edn. 1/3 (detail) ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Cambiones Edn. 1/3 (detail)
$2,200
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - In the sea of memory and forgetfulness ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - In the sea of memory and forgetfulness
$10,000
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Addendum 1 ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Addendum 1
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Becoming the weather inside ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Becoming the weather inside
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Eating the seeds of the apple ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Eating the seeds of the apple
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Everything's broken up and dances ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - Everything's broken up and dances
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - In the belly of the empty night ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - In the belly of the empty night
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - It will shock you how much this never happened ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - It will shock you how much this never happened
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - The new wilderness ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - The new wilderness
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - The one eyed man is king ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - The one eyed man is king
$900
ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - The past inside the present ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL - The past inside the present
$900

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