20/20: Lida Abdul's "White House"

Having fled Afghanistan as a child, Lida Abdul creates works informed by notions of homeland and exile. The five-minute-long White House (2005), in which the artist paints a bombed building with white paint, is at once an absurdist gesture and a cathartic act of political resistance. In 20/20 ArtAsiaPacific looks at how, through these perverse narratives, Abdul envisions a more textured world. 

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