Society for Aching Bodies (Bani Abidi)
Society for Aching Bodies — Bani Abidi's 2024 set of drawings, born from a dinner of shared texts and poems to hold friends through grief and exhaustion.
“Abidi hosted an impromptu dinner with old friends and new acquaintances, inviting them to bring with them ‘a text, a poem, a conversation… that can hold our hand through this time of grief and exhaustion.’”
Society for Aching Bodies, Bani Abidi, 2024. Set of drawings based on thee meals that Abidi has cooked and hosted in her Berlin home in the past 15 months.
Abidi is a Pakistani artist who works with video, photography, and drawing. She studied in Lahore, Chicago and now resides in Berlin.