
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Presented in the celebrated modernist building Heide Modern, Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken is a major body of work by Melbourne-based artist Raafat Ishak consisting of sculptural objects, a sound work and a series of paintings.
The project references Heide’s long-standing role as an incubator of modern and contemporary art and architecture, while taking the form of an act of cultural inquiry by bringing together a number of key speculative threads in the artist’s practice. In critiquing the museum as a site of public memory and imagination, Ishak draws upon numerous frames of reference including dominant art and political contexts and his Egyptian heritage and experience of migration.
Thought provoking and richly layered, the exhibition highlights the ongoing social and cultural change that is transforming contemporary cultures globally through multiple points of view and diversity of expression and creativity.
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Shannon
2023
Clay, fibreglass, gypsum, chicken wire and plywood
118 x 89 x 270 cm
Photography: Christian Capurro
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Diversity Bridge
2023
Tinted urethane on chipboard
Dimensions variable
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Feline Traffic
Detail
2023
Acrylic on MDF
Each 22 x 17 x 30 cm
Photography: Christian Capurro
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Oil on Canvas
163 x 113 cm
Raafat Ishak
Inclusion with Garlic Sauce
2023
Synthetic polymer paint on MDF
220 x 55 x 220 cm
Photography: Christian Capurro
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Apparition of a Miserable Acquaintance No.3
2023
Synthetic polymer paint on MDF
Dimensions variable
Photography: Christian Capurro
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Feline Traffic
Detail
2023
Acrylic on MDF
Each 22 x 17 x 30 cm
Photography: Christian Capurro
Installation view:
Raafat Ishak
Government Gold
Detail
2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Government Gold
2023
Shellac, 23ct gold leaf, bole, gesso and synthetic polymer paint on wood
135 x 90 x 160 cm
Photography: Christian Capurro
Raafat Ishak
Government Gold
2023
Shellac, 23ct gold leaf, bole, gesso and synthetic polymer paint on wood
135 x 90 x 160 cm
Photography: Christian Capurro