Movement: Conceptual art
Theme: Other/Unknown theme
Technique: Other/Unknown technique
Museum: Private collection
Location: No info
Material: Film
Abdul employs ritual and repetition as metaphors for healing and reconciliation richly throughout her work. In White House (2005), in a landscape strewn with ruins, Abdul painstakingly paints the rubble of a destroyed building white. Invoking the idea of whitewashing history, for Abdul the most difficult thing is to move beyond the memory of an event, pointing to the loss of the navigational principles that determine our understanding of belonging, identity and place – the “contingent ethics of geographical emplacement in which we might jointly puzzle out the perils of the fantasms of belonging as well as the tragedies of not belonging
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