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The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards - and resistance against - modernization.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: Against Approach Belonging Body Conflict Create Identity Modernization Narrative Politics Postmodern Push Resistance Strategies Themes Towards Traditional Well Work

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I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: Art Authority Challenges Identity Make Paint Rainbows Want

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I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: Afghanistan Asking Behalf Bribe Car Corruption Department Fake Instead Looked Money Offered Officer Police Police Officer Set Stopped Street Them Through Up Work

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Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: About Art Been Considered Culture Discussions Economics Fact Global In Fact International International Relations Misguided Often Politics Powerful Relations Religion See Society Transcendent Voice Way I See

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Jihad is the Afghan bling.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: Afghan Jihad

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Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan American Born Both Both Worlds Correspond Decade Feel Like Live Maybe Me Myself Nearly Needed Neither Picture Raised Shaped States Them Worlds

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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