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# Lida Abdul, Venice Biennale 2005
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/afghanistan-2575jsp/
- Published: 2005-06-05T23:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-17T11:52:09.000Z
- Author: Open democracy
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![Lida Abdul](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3f/80/3f804bea-4b2d-4ddf-9ff0-6ec7d0afa5fa/content/images/2026/04/400_HmwqNy7-1776425896272.jpg)

Lida Abdul

Self-portrait, Lida Abdul, http://www.lidaabdul.com/index.html

"Sometimes people say, I am "post-identity", "post-nation" ... I don’t know what this means. For me the most difficult thing is precisely to go past the memory of an event; my works are the forms of my failed attempts to, what others call, transcend...

But what? For me, art is always a petition for another world, a momentary shattering of what is comfortable so that we become more sophisticated in reclaiming the present. The new wandering souls of the globe, the new global refuseniks — stubborn, weak, persecuted, strong—willed continue to make art as long as people believe in easy solutions and closures of the most banal kinds."

[Lida Abdul's website](http://www.lidaabdul.com/artist.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[The Venice Biennale](http://www.labiennale.org/en/biennale/?ref=opendemocracy.net)