Feda Wardak

Born in 1991, Feda Wardak is a French-Afghan artist, architect-builder and independent researcher who lives and works in Paris. In 2015, he graduated in architecture from the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville (Ensa-PB), where he now teaches. His work has been shown at various international biennials (Venice, Dhaka, Chicago, Lagos), in group exhibitions at the MAC VAL, FRAC Grand Large and the Ateliers Médicis, among others, and in public spaces. He is interested in the impact of imperialist and liberal dynamics on inhabited environments. He works on the effects of war in Afghan tribal areas, the destruction of large housing estates in the Paris suburbs, water management policies, and the consequences of extractivism on the landscape and living organisms. In 2018, he founded a crafts skills school in Jeghatu (Afghanistan). Since 2015, Feda Wardak has directed the platform and eponymous magazine Aman Iwan.