Lida Abdul
Lida Abdul was born 1973 BirthKabul, Afghanistan.
Lives and works in HomeLos Angeles, USA.
“Why can’t a ruin itself be transformed into a meditation on something other…
a visual or sculptural poem that one hopes will open up new spaces for rethinking
about society, about ethics and identity itself.”
Categories: Installation art Performance Art Multimedia Gwangju Biennale Venice Biennale
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In “White House”, Lida Abdul paints ruins in her home town Kabul white. “I wanted to create a kind of sculpture that was supposed to be an answer to those who only see destruction, and that could also indicate the possibility of solving problems far more difficult. At the same time, I wanted to preserve these ruins for the future. Simply as ruins. Not as monuments.”
ida Abdul was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1973, and lived in Germany and India as a refugee before coming to the U.S. She graduated from the University of California at Irvine with an MFA (2000) and has since exhibited both in the US and abroad. She has produced work in many media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance…
Lida Abdul: "There is the desire to speak in them, as if everything had to be spoken at the same time, the sounds of all the words simultaneously expressed but remaining intelligible, even to myself. There is a certain automatism about them as I am sure there must be to all true witnessing. Maybe I am wrong, but I am convinced that the body has its own memory banks that the mind does not always use. This for me is the paradox, the pornography of a necessary act that would require of some women to reveal everything, everything in order to really know if they have suffered."
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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