Untitled (2017)

A strange contraption hangs from the ceiling, slowly spinning with the air currents that move through the space. It is spiky with a solid black center, with neither top nor bottom, front nor back. The constructions of Asim Waqif combine natural materials (in this case bamboo sticks) with industrially produced ones (here, plastic laminate and fasteners). His works seem both primitive and futuristic at the same time and the products of a truly globalized language of materials that have no specific origins or references. Waqif’s works seem to be falling apart as much as they are coming together, a language of decay and transition put to the service of construction and progress.