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photo - Luka Alagiyawanna
Abdul Halik Azeez is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer living in Sri Lanka. Inhabiting the absurdities and paradoxes of late capitalism and conflict at work in his environment, he operates from the uncertain position of embeddedness within the very phenomena he speaks to. As opposed to excavated or analyzed, meaning is recognized as always taking place in the present, being produced constantly through intricate webs of interconnections. Through ethnographic interventions and the sampling of diverse archives, Halik juxtaposes and remixes, tracing cosmologies which attempt to connect that which otherwise cannot be connected.
Halik has been awarded residencies at Delfina Foundation, Alserkal Art Foundation and Akademie Schloss Solitude, and has received grants from the Prince Claus Fund, Sharjah Art Foundation, Pro Helvetia and Photo Kathmandu/Magnum Foundation.
His installations, films, photographs and publications have been presented at Delfina Foundation (2025), The Asia Pacific Triennial (2024), Jameel Arts Center (2023), Videobrasil (2023), the British Film Institute (2023), Berlinale (2023), Sharjah Art Foundation (2022), documenta fifteen (2022), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka (2022) and multiple editions of Colomboscope.
In 2019 Halik co-founded The Packet. Inspired by Fred Moten’s idea of collective study as “what you do with other people”, The Packet produces a field akin to a jam session, where a collection of emerging artists from Sri Lanka, committed to hyperlocality, playfulness and collaborative process, think together in public.
email: halikazeez@gmail.com
instagram: @colombedouin
vimeo: https://vimeo.com/halik
Halik has been awarded residencies at Delfina Foundation, Alserkal Art Foundation and Akademie Schloss Solitude, and has received grants from the Prince Claus Fund, Sharjah Art Foundation, Pro Helvetia and Photo Kathmandu/Magnum Foundation.
His installations, films, photographs and publications have been presented at Delfina Foundation (2025), The Asia Pacific Triennial (2024), Jameel Arts Center (2023), Videobrasil (2023), the British Film Institute (2023), Berlinale (2023), Sharjah Art Foundation (2022), documenta fifteen (2022), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka (2022) and multiple editions of Colomboscope.
In 2019 Halik co-founded The Packet. Inspired by Fred Moten’s idea of collective study as “what you do with other people”, The Packet produces a field akin to a jam session, where a collection of emerging artists from Sri Lanka, committed to hyperlocality, playfulness and collaborative process, think together in public.
email: halikazeez@gmail.com
instagram: @colombedouin
vimeo: https://vimeo.com/halik