With degrees in Cultural Anthropology, Afghan-bred, American-born artist Amanullah Mojadidi's work utilizes an experimental ethnographic approach, combining qualitative research, traditional storytelling, postmodern narrative strategies, and mixed-media artworks (often site-specific installations) to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics, conflict, artifactual history, and migration; intentionally blurring and merging the lines between fact and fiction, documentation and imagination. 

For the last several years, Mojadidi has been on a path connecting more deeply with his self, ancestral roots, emotional core, and physical body through shamanism; using various shamanic voyage rituals and different forms of modified consciousness techniques including chanting, meditation, respiration, music, dance, yoga, psychedelics, and other plant medicines. This has led to a search for “emotional” rather than “intellectual” truth in his work, thereby becoming less interested in the intellectualisation of creation, and rather more interested in “feeling” (at core emotional and spiritual levels) his way through the creative p...