Neon Parc, Melbourne
Bundanon Art Museum, Illaroo
Neon Parc, Art Basel, Hong Kong
(1) Script Site, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin, epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, fibre dyes,pigment powder, lime paint, welded mild steel
147⁄8 × 141⁄4 × 61⁄2 inches
(2) Michelin E-Smoke, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin, basswood, construction adhesive, epoxy modelling compound, spray paint, welded steel, white pigment
161⁄8 × 107⁄8 × 101⁄4 inches
(3) Morning Toast, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin cast, concrete cast, construction adhesive, epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, spray paint, welded steel, wood
221⁄8 × 8 × 111⁄2 inches
(4) Modern Art, 2026
acrylic paint, aluminium mesh, aqua resin, basswood, construction adhesive, epoxy modelling
compound, epoxy resin, pigments, welded mild steel, wood
153⁄4 × 101⁄2 × 65⁄8 inches
(5) Metropolitan, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin, casting wax, cold galvanizing compound spray, epoxy modelling compound, granite, rubber band, welded steel, white pigment
91⁄2 × 111⁄4 × 101⁄8 inches
(6) The Museum, 2026
aluminium mesh, construction adhesive, epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, scagliola, stainless steel, welded steel, wood
211⁄4 × 5 × 5 inches
(7) Dalmatia, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin, cold galvanizing compound spray, epoxy modelling compound, granite effects powder, pumice gel, welded steel
173⁄4 × 111⁄2 × 51⁄2 inches
(8) Gum Rod, 2026
epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, welded stainless steel
161⁄8 × 101⁄4 × 63⁄8 inches
(9) Five One, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin, concrete mix, epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, granite
effects powder, lime paint, vinyl paint, welded steel
211⁄2 × 121⁄4 × 111⁄4 inches
(10) Street, 2026
aluminium mesh, cold galvanizing compound spray, epoxy resin, epoxy modelling
compound, spray paint, concrete, aggregate sand, welded steel
201⁄8 × 103⁄8 × 101⁄2 inches
(11) Borum Peel, 2026
aggregate sand, aluminium mesh, aqua resin, concrete mix, concrete pigments, duct tape,
epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, granite effects powder, glass fibre reinforcement,
welded mild steel
157⁄8 × 97⁄8 × 10 inches
(12) Metalworker’s Alphabetic, 2026
stainless steel
183⁄8 × 91⁄2 × 75⁄8 inches
(13) Baroqueside, 2026
aluminium mesh, epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, scagliola, pigments (caput mortuum,
French ochre, iron oxide brown, Cyprus burnt umber), stone wax, welded mild steel
171⁄4 × 8 × 105⁄8 inches
(14) 516-361-9554, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin, concrete mix, concrete pigments, epoxy modelling compound,
epoxy resin, eucalyptus mulch, handmade paper, nails, scagliola, spray paint, stainless steel,
welded steel, studio wood
16 × 163⁄8 × 14 inches
(15) Two Bridges, 2026
aluminium mesh, aqua resin, epoxy modelling compound, epoxy resin, glass fibre reinforcement,
mulberry paper, PVA adhesive, welded mild steel, welded stainless steel, lime paint
21 × 91⁄2 × 11 inches
March 27 - March 29, 2026
At Art Basel Hong Kong, Nabilah Nordin presents Hot Rod Dilemma, a suite of sixteen sculptures that read as intimate investigations into how the built environment is made, held and undone. Working from welded steel armatures and epoxy, Nordin constructs forms that reveal the mechanics of support- scaffolding, braces and improvised plinths- while
preserving a sense of material vulnerability. Each work is both artefact and moment: a fragment of construction that still remembers the act of being built.
Nordin begins with a structural logic: welded steel frameworks that outline potential weight, tension and collapse. Into these armatures she pours, coats and interrupts with epoxy resins, concrete, sand, granite, wood, scagliola and other materials, producing surfaces that oscillate between polished finish and raw accumulation. The process is deliberate and hands-on. Heat, pressure and gesture leave visible traces, so that seams, drips and tool marks become evidence of a construction under negotiation. Provisional elements such as rubber bands, timber braces and stacked slices of disparate material are not incidental but active devices that test and activate each sculpture’s capacity to stand.
Across the presentation, forms lean, perch and brace against one another as though mid-assembly. Heavy masses sag while their supports insist on keeping them upright; slender rods pierce soft, flesh-like surfaces to probe structural limits. These moments echo everyday urban compromises: a temporary scaffold, an ad-hoc clamp, a hastily patched façade. Nordin makes these gestures visible and legible, turning the language of maintenance and repair into a sculptural grammar.
Metropolitan (2026) compresses civic tension into a hollow resin body whose outward thrust is arrested by a baby-blue rubber band and a granite support—an engineered moment of vulnerability turned tactile. Michelin E-Smoke (2026) freezes an exhaled plume into a curling, resilient form, translating atmospheric motion into architectural presence. Gum Rod (2026) juxtaposes a spidery stainless-steel lattice with a slumped mass of epoxy that reads like accreted detritus—an image of structure attempting to accommodate excess. Morning Toast (2026) plays monumentality off improvisation: a lacquered
butter-white form reminiscent of classical sculptural maquettes sits atop a stacked, heterogeneous plinth that subtly undermines its heroic posture. With Metalworker’s Alphabetic (2026), Nordin reduces sculpture to its structural bones—welded rods configured as an exposed lattice that reads like an architectural blueprint.
Nordin’s sculptures operate as small systems of negotiation in which propping, counterweight and restraint become performative strategies. Surfaces harden mid-drip, armatures are revealed as the finished gesture, and supports behave like actors within a constructed scene. The result is a body of work that celebrates the provisional mechanics of cities—how they are patched, propped and held together—inviting viewers to witness the scaffolding of both making and meaning. Hot Rod Dilemma foregrounds the tactile, the engineered and the precarious, offering a composed exploration of the
urban environment, through its accumulated traces and physical impressions.