JAMEEL MOOLANI
BIO
Jameel Moolani is a Canadian installation artist and sculptor of Malaysian-Chinese and KenyanIsmaili heritage. In 2022, Jameel installed his first permanent sculpture Waves in Esquimalt, British Columbia as part of the city’s public art project celebrating the spirit of community. He is currently studying in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Sculpture program at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal).
Working between objects, environments, and architectural spaces, my work often takes shape as site-specific interventions that explore the connection between art and activism. Using a hybrid and composite approach to materiality in steel, wood, plastic and ready-mades, I look to reinterpret culture’s consumerist and mediadefined relationships to objects and space.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artistic practice embodies a transgression towards structures and systems of oppression, rooted in my familial history of colonial displacement. Taking inspiration from the disruptive spirit of hacker culture, my sculptural projects imagine a new equitable future for humanity.Working between objects, environments, and architectural spaces, my work often takes shape as site-specific interventions that explore the connection between art and activism. Using a hybrid and composite approach to materiality in steel, wood, plastic and ready-mades, I look to reinterpret culture’s consumerist and mediadefined relationships to objects and space.