Ibrahim Mahama, 'No Friend but the Mountains 2012-20', 2020 | 22nd Biennale of Sydney | NIRIN

For the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Mahama presents a largescale immersive installation, dressing the entirety of the interior Turbine Hall at Cockatoo Island with jute sacks. A crowded patchwork of rich, brown colour and rough and smooth planes, together their hardened surfaces mime the gritty materiality and architecture of the former shipyard and penal colony, to reference and stir the histories of labor and incarceration laying dormant on the island.