[1] Her work has been featured at the 2005 Venice Biennale, Kunsthalle Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem Netherlands and Miami Cantral, CAC Centre d'art contemporain de Brétigny and Frac Lorraine Metz, France.
[2] Abdul fled Afghanistan in December 1979 with the threat of the Soviet invasion, making her a refugee to India, Germany and the United States, and thus is an "artistic nomad".
[2] Abdul's video and performance art has been described as abstract and dream-like, and she uses film techniques such as blurring to evoke the mind, as well as an "epic scale".
[4] While Abdul was made a refugee in 1979 after the Soviet invasion,[3] she was able to return to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban to revisit her home country, film, and meet with Afghan people to talk about their hopes for the future.
[9] The film is rhythmic, and a symbol of hope and progress,[2] as well as an act of political resistance to various injustices, such as the United States' profitable occupation of Afghanistan, the whitewashing of history,[8] and Afghan people's psychological injury from living in a war-torn region.
[10] Clapping with stones is a video documentary, which contains a group of men in black Shalwar Kameez performing a prayer like ritual in front of the rock of Bamiyan.
Lida Abdul's work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Middle East, Europe and North America.
Her works are permeated with; cultural identity, migration, psychological damage, process of destruction & displacement, and include notions of exile and homeland.
[3] One such stereotype is an image of a nation overtaken by war and stripped entirely of culture, however, even in light of devastation, Afghan people still had the desire to create art.
[14] With the works of Lida Abdul and other artists in the forefront, a western audience is given an alternative way to see Afghanistan removed from the depictions of terror and devastated cities.
[14] Afghanistan is more regional than central in orientation and culture, in part because of the lack of transportation throughout the country to connect major points of interest.