Artworks include illustrations, paintings and monuments sorted according to years of creation:
The drawer is culturally attached to the concept of secrecy and privacy, the location where one locks personal documents, intimate objects, and cherished secrets. Continue Reading…
Abdi’s images contain various themes that recur in a spiral manner. This spiraling is best demonstrated through his interest in working with actual cloth and representations of fabric. Continue Reading…
Abdi’s portraits on display are a collection of images that bring forward the possibility to portray, name and give identity to those denied of such basic rights by the authorities. In Abdi’s work, Continue Reading…
Beyond his extensive work in diverse media, Abdi’s iconography marks a long contribution to the Palestinian struggle for recognition and the voicing of Palestinian particular identity, history and suffering as a central theme of his creative work.
“Awareness of the torn motherland”, is an appropriate general expression for Abdi’s creation… However, this “awareness” strives for universal justice, for universal artistic language that is beyond the borders and the issues of identity and nationality: at the center of his creation, the human figure appears time and time again, sketched in a sensitive illustration that is attentive to the suffering of human beings against the waves of history..
Abed Abdi is a prolific artist, having produced a significant body of work that remains largely undocumented
The work you have done in the age of the internet is as monumental as Abed Abdi’s work is monumental in the history of Palestinian art !
