🎥 Our second Screening Room gathers three video shorts – ‘Mangoes’ (1999), ‘Anthems’ (2000), and ‘The News’ (2001) – by…

🎥 Our second Screening Room gathers three video shorts – ‘Mangoes’ (1999), ‘Anthems’ (2000), and ‘The News’ (2001) – by the Berlin-based Pakistani artist Bani Abidi ( @bani_abidi ), made while Abidi was a student at the School of Art Institute in Chicago.

In these early works, Abidi uses satire and absurdist humour to draw attention to how the political borders and cultural distinctions between India and Pakistan are discursively constructed and performatively reinforced through nationalist narratives and everyday practices. This online Screening Room coincides with Wildfire I, II, III, a programme of film screenings and conversations curated by Abidi that will take place at Ibraaz between December 2025 and February 2026.

Watch on our website via the link in bio.

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