Abdul Hadi@fromhaadi

Artist Bio

Abdul Haadi is a visual artist based in Khanpur, Pakistan. He holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the National College of Arts (NCA) Lahore. His interdisciplinary practice spans painting, video, and animation, often centering on socio-political themes connected to rural and peripheral landscapes in South Punjab.

Haadi’s work has been exhibited both locally and internationally at venues such as 12 Gates Gallery (Philadelphia), Faiz Festival (Lahore), HAAM Gallery, Articulate Studios, BNU, NCA and the Lahore Digital Festival. In addition to his studio practice, he has also taught video art at NCA, contributing to contemporary discourse in moving image and experimental media.

Artist Statement

My practice emerges from a constant negotiation between personal memory and collective history. Working across video, painting, and animation, I use layered visual strategies to explore socio-political narratives that are often rooted in the rural and peripheral spaces I come from. These spaces carry complex histories, some preserved, many forgotten, and I see my work as a way of engaging with those fragments.

I often work with interviews, sound recordings, archival images, and everyday objects—materials that allow me to construct timelines that are both intimate and political. Through these elements, I try to create a language that sits between observation and fiction, documentation and storytelling.

By layering narratives and juxtaposing different voices, I hope to build a space where viewers can reflect on the shifting nature of identity, geography, and belonging. My work is not just about representation, but about initiating a conversation—one that acknowledges silences, overlaps, and contradictions in how we remember, record, and relate to place.