ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH exhibits six new sculptures developed for Melbourne Art Fair 2024. Empirical observation remains a key to understanding the world around us, just as it does to the rendering of Abdullah's remarkable sculptures in wood. In a series of finely articulated birds crowning pillars of books, Abdullah reflects upon the idea of language and the entropy of words when describing the world around us.

The artist explains: "In Abrahamic lore the language of birds represents access to a divine, esoteric form of communication shared by angels and birds alike. In earthly terms, language offers our best tool to carry the most meaning with the least weight and our relationship to the world cannot be understood without it. Like all relationships, language is transactional and we necessarily lose in order to gain."