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Lida Abdul
Born in Kabul in 1973, Lida Abdul has returned to live there. Kim Dhillon looks at her practice, working accross various media, that fuses Western formalist traditions with numerous aesthetic influences.
Born in Kabul in 1973, Lida Abdul has returned to live there. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan she lived in Germany and India, having left her home country as a refugee with her family in the late 1970s. Trained in the US, and having lived in Los Angeles, Abdul’s artwork fuses Western formalist traditions with numerous aesthetic influences both Eastern and Western – Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan and nomadic to name a few – that have, in turn, collectively influenced both Afghan art and culture and her practice. Abdul has produced work in media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance. Her work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, 2005 (as the first artist to represent Afghanistan in the Biennale’s existence), Kunsthalle Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem Netherlands and Miami Cantral, CAC Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny and Frac Lorraine Metz, France. She has also exhibited in festivals in Mexico, Spain, Germany, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. She was a featured artist at the Central Asian Biennial 2004. Recently she has relocated to Kabul, working on projects that explore the...
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