# @publicartfund on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-03-28T16:39:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Public Art Fund (@publicartfund) — https://gondola.cc/publicartfund

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JUST ANNOUNCED: Opening April 30, "Huma Bhabha: Before the End," an exhibition featuring a series of four new large-scale bronze sculptures, will debut at brooklynbridgepark. Drawing inspiration from a diverse array of influences, Bhabha’s works blend aesthetic, cultural, and psychological elements, probing the intersections of art, science fiction, horror, and mythology.

These expressive eight-foot-tall forms, titled "Feel the Hammer," "Member," "Mr. Stone," and "Nothing Falls," appear to be emerging from the depths of the earth, or perhaps returning to the underworld, their surfaces evoking centuries of eroded sediment and stone. The exhibition’s title, "Before The End," creates a sense of momentous intensity, theatricality, and subtle humor. Like the sculptures themselves, Bhabha’s influences span across time and genre, including classic cult horror films like "Destroy All Monsters," H.R. Giger’s designs for the "Alien" franchise, and the work of artists including Giacometti, Marisol, and Basquiat.

Since the 1990s, Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) has become known for layered and nuanced work that centers on reinvention of the figure and its expressive possibilities. Based in Poughkeepsie, New York, Bhabha creates sculptures, drawings, and installations that reimagine the figure. She made the four bronze sculptures featured in "Before The End" by casting carved cork and skull fragments. The mysterious figures recall ancient effigies cut into tombstones.

“Before The End” is Bhabha’s second time presenting work with Public Art Fund, following the inclusion of her sculpture, "The Orientalist," in the group exhibition "Statuesque" at City Hall Park in 2010. She continues to push the boundaries of contemporary sculpture with her unique visual language. Bhabha’s hybrid forms seem to exist in their own parallel universe, offering visitors an opportunity to reflect upon their own time and place.

"Before The End" will be on view at the Pier 3 Uplands in Brooklyn
Bridge Park through March 9, 2025. The exhibition can be explored anytime, anywhere, on the free BloombergConnects app.

#HumaBhabha
Huma Bhabha, 2022. 
Photo by Daniel Dorsa.
Courtesy David Zwirner

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