President’s Young Talents
Ezzam Rahman
Diploma in Fine Arts, Class of 2003 MA Fine Arts, Class of 2017
Entries:
Allow me to introduce myself
Performative installation with talcum powder, second-hand furniture and glass bell jars, dimensions variable
Here’s who I am, I am what you see
Artist’s skin, nails and adhesive, second-hand furniture and glass bell jars
Dimensions variable
Ezzam is a multi-disciplinary artist, but his mediums of choice are performance and installation art. His artworks for the President's Young Talents consist of fragile, miniature flowers shaped from flakes of dead skin, and ephemeral sculptures that consist of little but talcum powder. Animating these otherwise mute objects, however, is the artist’s living, breathing body. The skin is his own, culled over a period of time from the soles of his feet, and the powder sculptures are remnants of his performances, into which his perspiration is mixed.