In We Will Meet Again in Paradise, her first exhibition with NILS STÆRK, Ikram Abdulkadir presents a series of works shaped by intimacy, care, and shared experience. Working within a documentary photographic tradition, she photographs the women closest to her – sisters, friends, and members of her community – approaching the camera as both participant and observer. The images arise from everyday environments, both urban and domestic, yet carry a heightened sense of presence and attention.
Across the works, individuals and groups of young women appear in flowing jilbaabs, forming quiet constellations of bodies and gazes. At times they meet the camera directly; at others they turn toward one another or away, absorbed in their own exchange, or appearing alone. Moving between portrait and collective scene, the photographs trace gestures of closeness that evoke forms of sisterhood both lived and imagined.
Kilde: NILS STÆRK