Ames Yavuz is excited to announce Soft Power, Abdul Abdullah’s 7th solo exhibition with the gallery. Soft Power coincides with Abdullah’s participation in the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Rememory, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi.

In Soft Power, Abdullah uses texts taken from motivational sayings and plays with double entendres, so that the phrases could also be read as invitations to fight. The works continue the artist’s career-long interest in playing with language. They juxtapose histories of violence or systems of otherness with a disarming aesthetic foil. Many of the works also explore expressions of extreme communal emotion.