The guided tour introduces two parallel exhibitions: Deborah Turbeville – Photocollage and Ikram Abdulkadir – Soft Focus. Installed side by side on Level 2, the exhibitions each take fashion and portrait photography as their point of departure.
In both artists’ practices, people are at the centre – in images marked by presence, atmosphere, and a sense of timelessness. In the encounter between Deborah Turbeville and Ikram Abdulkadir, both similarities and differences emerge. While Turbeville worked with staged environments and a deliberate aesthetic, Abdulkadir departs from the intimate and the everyday. At the same time, a shared sensibility becomes visible – a gaze that lingers, a resistance to fixed meanings, and a desire to make space for what otherwise remains unspoken. Both artists’ practices can be related to pictorialism, an early movement in art photography in which images are often softly focused and approach the painterly. In Turbeville’s work, this is evident in her manipulated photographs and photocollages; in Abdulkadir’s, in her way of working with colour, form, and light and shadow.
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Moderna Museet Malmö
Moderna Museet Malmö