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Abdul Mazid

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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

My art practice incorporates a multidisciplinary, conceptual framework in which I explore beyond the facades of modern global events to reveal the less tangible power structures and manipulations that surround us. By combining paradigms and disrupting the distinct division between ideological binaries, once-definitive categories begin to blur and slip into one another. Through these actions, I distort the boundaries between the established, acceptable, and the absurd. My intention is to create a space for critical thinking and to question the mechanisms that predicate our underlying beliefs, actions, and behaviors.

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