Hamza

Visual Communication (MA)

The body of the angel, shackled and in a perpetual state of servitude. The angel is constantly 'breathing,' and that motion intensifies the longer someone stands in front of it. 'Prophecies' and 'revelations' are produced out of the angel's mouth when the hand is held.

Mild steel, aluminium, 3D printed resin, hessian fabric.

The pile of prophecies (human-written future predictions of people who don't exist) and revelations (snippets of research).

The backdrop of the angel: a soft replica of the light rays that sit behind Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. Painted by hand after welding.

About

I am a London based experimental communicator working with both physical and digital mediums. My making ethos is one of constantly navigating the edges of subjects I am interested in and attempting to push them even further. Transgressive, sometimes satirical, and always theory-driven; my output has spanned traditional and digital illustration, video, sound-art, online and offline ARGs, website, performance, and sculpture.

My latest project, Angelophany, is a kinetic, prophecy-delivering metal angel, and it explores Bataille’s concept of the limit-experience as a mode to briefly break structures of control. These structures, which mirror divine predestination in their ability to limit agency and predetermine communities and individuals into certain roles, could potentially be disrupted by utilising a human-made simulation of contact with the divine.

Research video for Angelophany

Prophecy dispensing mechanism

Breathing mechanism

Instagram: @vore.crimes

Email: hamza.a.hammer@gmail.com

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