Khadim Ali b. c.1978

  • Artist (Painter)
Khadim Ali is a contemporary artist who creates miniature-style paintings. He was trained in the Mughul and Kabul miniature traditions. His works focus on contemporary issues in Afghanistan, in particular the plight of the Hazara minority.
Tags: Contemporary Miniature Painting
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exhibited at
Haunted Lotus
Date
10 May 2012 - 12 May 2012
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Khadim Ali’s miniature painting work explores complex moral themes of good and evil, set in the anarchic civil war in Afghanistan, where ethnic and religious bigotry are means to an end. Khadim Ali interweaves past and present symbols — including the Taliban’s destruction in 2001 of the Bamiyan Buddhas sculpted by his Hazara ancestors — to explore coexisting layers of the experience of intervention and religious extremism in a world distorted by warped ideologies.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/166-haunted-lotus-2012
exhibited at
The Force of Forgetting
Date
19 March 2011 - 23 April 2011
Place
Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore, NSW
Description

The Force of Forgetting: 'From the beginning of the history of Afghanistan, the Hazara people have been persecuted and massacred and have been living under sectarian, ethnic oppressive regimes. ...The force of forgetting doesn’t mean to forget a history of pain, but the inability to express that memory. For this we need a silent artistic language to speak about these suppressed memories.’ Khadim Ali, Karachi, 2011

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/141-the-force-of-forgetting
exhibited at
The Haunted Lotus: Contemporary Art from Kabul
Date
4 September 2010 - 30 October 2010
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

The difficulties faced by artists in Afghanistan will be dramatically on view in the exhibition The Haunted Lotus: Contemporary Art from Kabul. This war-torn country is now known better for anarchy than aesthetics.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/archive/101-2010-exhibitions-projects/103-the-haunted-lotus-contemporary-art-from-kabul
exhibited at
The Haunted Lotus: Contemporary Art from Kabul
Date
4 September 2010 - 30 October 2010
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

The difficulties faced by artists in Afghanistan will be dramatically on view in the exhibition The Haunted Lotus: Contemporary Art from Kabul. This war-torn country is now known better for anarchy than aesthetics.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Rustam
Date
2009
Place
Rohtas2, Lahore, Pakistan
Type
Exhibition

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