Self-portrait, Lida Abdul, http://www.lidaabdul.com/index.html
"Sometimes people say, I am "post-identity", "post-nation" ... I dont 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, strongwilled continue to make art as long as people believe in easy solutions and closures of the most banal kinds."
