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6 novembre 2007

Khadim Ali, Rustam à la Green Cardamom gallery, London

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LONDON.- Green Cardamom gallery will present Khadim Ali, Rustam, on view 16 November - 16 December 2007. A preoccupation with myth, poetry, personal and collective memory and cultural identity runs throughout Rustam, the first UK solo exhibition for Afghanistan born artist Khadim Ali and Green Cardamom’s inaugural exhibition in their new premises at 5a Porchester Place.
Referencing the ancient Persian epic The Shahnameh, Khadim Ali’s recent work explores the practice of storytelling and how cultural icons can be commandeered and subverted to serve multiple ends in contemporary life and politics. The works stem from an encounter Khadim Ali had with a young boy in Bamiyan; named Rustam, the child was unaware of his namesake (a mythological character from The Shahnameh) and his only association with his name was that of Rustam-e-Parzand (or winged Rustum), a name used by the Taliban to enforce an image of omnipresent vigilance.
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