This monograph is published in cooperation with Prince Claus Fund Library, The Hague, Regione Campania, Italy, and Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin. It presents the artworks' photographic documentation, critical essays by art historians, an interview to the artist and a complete bio-bibliography. Lida Abdul, awarded best foreign artist in the Afghanistan section, set up for the first time at the Venice Biennale (2005), as an artist who works both in performance and video art, she creates poetic spaces that allow the viewer to interrogate the familiar and the personal. Her work is guided by a ritualized formalism that insinuates the immediacy of myth and the playfulness of a mind seeking to understand the surrounding world. In many ways, witnessing her pieces is like attempting to understand the riddles of the gestures and the repetitions that highlight her work. Abdul's work is located at the intersection between art and architecture; it invites the viewer to see the unfolding of new forms but never resolves the contradictions and the paradoxes, the purpose of which seems to be to make us doubt our claims of understanding.