Waqt al-tagheer: time of change
Delegated Risk Management | Abdul Abdullah | 2017
archival print
100 x 154cm.
Courtesy the artist and Lisa Fehily Contemporary Art.
Mutual Assurances | Abdul Abdullah | 2017
archival print
100 x 232cm.
Courtesy the artist and Lisa Fehily Contemporary Art.
Photograph - Sam Roberts Photography
“In this new Wedding series, I have developed and expanded the ideas presented my 2015 series: Coming to terms. Taking the ritual of a wedding that is broadly understood across cultures, I have subverted traditional imagery with atypical lighting and the use of balaclavas on my subjects. The specific lighting techniques used to illuminate these wedding stages emulates styles and combinations used in science fiction and horror films, and music videos. The balaclavas on the subjects speak to the projection of criminality on innocent bodies. By combining these elements the intention of the work is to critically examine how the reality of the actions and beliefs of an individual is often irrelevant to how they are perceived if they belong to, or are perceived to belong to a marginalised minority. The titles in Wedding series are borrowed from generalised approximations of the language of the commerce and finance industry. In using these titles I’m speaking to another layer of dehumanisation that occurs when people are denied the complexity and specificity of an individual identity.”