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Akil Ahamat: Extinguishing Hope — Akil Ahamat, Dawn of a Day Too Dark to Call Tomorrow, 2021, still from moving image.

West Space

Akil Ahamat: Extinguishing Hope

West Space is proud to present new work by Akil Ahamat as part of their 2024 Commission series.

Akil Ahamat is a Sri Lankan Malay artist, filmmaker and arts worker. Akil’s work across video, sound, performance and installation considers the physical and social isolation of online experience and its effects in configuring contemporary subjectivity. Among their research influences, Akil draw especially on the use of ASMR in online spaces as a self-administered therapeutic tool, translating its restorative effects into intimate audio experiences.

West Space Board member James Nguyen says, “Akil Ahamat is an artist whose works continue to be incredibly sensitive and moving. Creating a new body of work on ‘slow cinema for short attention spans,’ Akil has proposed a compelling multichannel installation that will reshape the viewers’ experience of cinema and stillness.”

This project will be accompanied by a publication, developed by Akil Ahamat, Alexander Tanazefti and West Space and in partnership with UTS Gallery, Sydney.

16 November—18 January

West Space

30 Perry St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia

westspace.org.au

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