HOMELESS FORMS FOR FORMLESS HOMES | Nadim AbbasNadim ABBAS HOMELESS FORMS FOR FORMLESS HOMES 2023 19x19cm 162pp Risograph book block Offset spot colour insert + dust jacket 1st edition 500 copies printed at InkChacha Publication realised and supported by Rockbund Art Museum on occasion of the project RAM Commissions This book began as a homage to the manga form. However, after a spate of storyboarding and character development, it soon became evident that I was not really interested in telling a
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Nadim ABBAS HOMELESS FORMS FOR FORMLESS HOMES 屋即是空 / 空即是屋 2023
Publication realised and supported by Rockbund Art Museum on occasion of the project RAM Commissions
This book began as a homage to the manga form. However, after a spate of storyboarding and character development, it soon became evident that I was not really interested in telling a story per se. Initially tempted by the prospect of spinning a gory tale set in a post-insect dystopia, I came to realise that in this respect, I would prefer to remain a reader rather than author.
Which is not to say that I had to completely start again from zero, since there were still various traces of world-building, of which this book is now a further reduction-in-progress. Reduction that is, not in the sense of big-to-small, but like a sauce that is reduced to highlight certain flavours, by removing extraneous elements.
So if it is still possible to place this book in manga territory, it would be a curiously ‘ambient’ one; sans story, characters, a beginning or an end.
Next comes my fascination with the delicate science of package engineering, and the starring role played by moulded expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam, which itself merits a story of its own. Or perhaps it is precisely the apparent lack of a story that drew me towards these discarded object-voids and their strange elegance.
Pictorial depiction in parallel projection allows for significant ambiguities with regard to questions of scale. So if the reader momentarily confuses an EPS foam form for a building, you are not alone!
Nadim Abbas examines the mercurial properties of images and their ambiguous relationship to reality. This has culminated in the construction of complex set pieces, where objects disappear into their own semblance and bodies succumb to the seduction of space.