White House, Lida Abdul

Lida Abdul portrays cultural erasure and the ruins of war in this film that documents a performance in Kabul, Afghanistan. The artist notes: “Afghanistan is physically destroyed, yes, but the resilience to survive persists unabated. Language, notions of domesticity and perceptions of the other are all transformed radically, to the extent that survivors/refugees often refuse to talk about what they went through. We have all known the history of this silence. These nomadic artists give voice to the silence amongst us through their works.”