Mehmet Adil b. 1953

  • Artist (Installation Artist)
exhibited at
The Wording of Police Charges
Date
14 September 2007 - 13 October 2007
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Many find the suppression of freedom of expression under the government’s Terror Laws unacceptable. But the suppression is spreading. The government is utilising its legislative armory in more and more mainstream ways.

Artists Mehmet Adil, Elizabeth Gertsakis and Michael Jones consider how restrictions to freedom of expression have quickly spread from remote legislative meeting rooms into civic and private realms.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/73-the-wording-of-police-charges
exhibited at
Project one
Date
1994
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Elements of everyday materials: Room 1: 2,000 unspent matches piled on the floor, a violin bow tunnels through the top of the pile, 6 tall thin strips of glass curving from the wall to floor. Room 2: A pile of paraffin wax blocks. Room 3: A large glass sheet leaning against the wall. A truck tyre is wedged in between. Two cushions support one end of a large sheet of glass lying on the floor.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue; Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Exhibition Catalogue:
Mehmet, Adil, Project one. Parkside SA: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1994
ISBN 1875751149 (prepublication)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Untitled
Date
1993
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

This exhibition is part of a season of turn-around exhibitions (about 10 days) called Short Sharp Shock, making strong pro-active links with a new practitioners and audience, artists exhibited works-in-progress. It allowed the institution to take the risks partially denied to it through the pragmatics involved in putting on exhibitions that last for over a month.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation