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LMAKgallery is pleased to present Popel Coumou's second solo exhibition
titled Popel. This exhibit features two series of photographs in which she emphasizes the
importance of light and pushes the element of her signature abstracted narrative into a
new realm: the silent contemplation of emptiness.

In the series she started in 2015, Popel began to erase the presence of her photographed
subject and re-interpreted its horizon, from a point of reference into abstraction. The
horizon becomes a line or the sun a dot, adjusting the assumed narrative to the origins of
abstract art and the essence of …