Lida ABDUL, <Time, Love and the Workings of Anti-Love>, Sound piece, photographic camera, 542 photos b/w, each approximately 3.7x2.6cm, 2013
Courtesy of Giorgio Persano Gallery
Lida ABDUL
In Transit
Lida Abdul is famous for her works related to Afghanistan, her country of origin. The landscape that mesmerized her in the land that suffered 35 years of war was traces of ruins. Her work <In Transit> (2008) is set in the outskirts of Kabul where the landscape is totally in ruins because of 20 long years of war. More than 70 children between 5 and 9 years of age are featured in the work. The children try to fill all the bullet holes in the fuselage of crashed bomber aircraft and pull it to make it fly like a kite in their efforts to transform the atrocities of war into hopes and a new future. Despite the tragic and violent situation they are in, the children are trying to neutralize such tragedy they are in through their innocence. Another work <Time, Love, and the Working of Anti-Love>(2013) is composed of a photographic camera, 300 passport photos and sound (a voice that delivers a poignant text beautifully but painfully). The presence of the voice, or its absence, makes her work shine more bright.
