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Lida Abdul, White house, Kabul, 16mm transfer to DVD, 4’58”, 2005. Courtesy: the artist and Giorgio Persano Gallery
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1973, Lida Abdul currently resides there, having lived as a refugee in Germany and India. Her work fuses the tropes of ‘Western’ formalism with the numerous aesthetic traditions – Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan and nomadic – that collectively influenced Afghan art and culture.
Recently, Abdul has worked in different parts of Afghanistan on projects exploring the relationship between architecture, identity and memory. She has worked in many media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance.
www.lidaabdul.com
Read Kim Dhillon’s profile of Lida Abdul on www.a-n.co.uk/radical_positions
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