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ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH & ABDUL ABDULLAH
Peripheries
7th August – 11th September 2021

MOORE CONTEMPORARY is pleased to host the anticipated second iteration of the shared project Peripheries between brothers ABDUL ABDULLAH and ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH. Paintings by Abdul Abdullah join sculptures from Abdul-Rahman Abdullah in a vital expression that is charged by the currency of our times, and is informed by their personal perceptions and realities of what centre and periphery might mean.

Catalogue essayist Somayra Ismailjee summarises this project:
'Peripheries is an exercise in duality, treading two lines, two conceptions of peripheral identity that run parallel to each other. Each work, too, seems to embody a juxtaposition; contentment and captivity, turbulence and steady reassurance. Perhaps the most fundamental duality here is that of peripherality and centrality itself. The centre seems to be a conception in flux, as normalcy is upended in the world at large. The Abdullah brothers speak, through their work, reflexively of their own peripheral identities - and through the shared humanity we encounter in their work, allow us to reflect upon our own.'

Peripheries and the works of Abdul Abdullah are presented in association with YAVUZ GALLERY.

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