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Musical Manifest

Adel Abidin’s practice explores the relationship between the visual arts, identity, politics, and popular culture. In Musical Manifest, the artist turns the camera on himself in a series of music clips using an absurd and ironic visual language. Abidin is the protagonist, singing songs rearranged from fragments of lyrics of different pop music. The songs sound strange, almost distinguishable but slightly off as if lost in translation. The videos make fictional references to his past since emigrating to North-West Europe. Staged in theatrical spaces, Abidin triggers everyday …