BIOGRAPHY

Aida Kupusović is a Bosnian-born visual artist whose journey  was shaped by the war. Since 2000 she has been living in Chicago. She is known for her very unique spiritual and personal visual expression which is a sanctuary for the memories of primordial nature and identity through the sacredness of love and beauty, manifested in her jewelry, sculptures/reliefs and poems.

Aida seamlessly weaves her delicate and intricate one of a kind handcrafted jewelry where her pieces are monuments to intimacy, each one a testament to originality, authenticity, patience, precision and the power of artistic freedom, creativity and aesthetics.

Aida’s contemporary sculptures/ reliefs artworks are deeply rooted in the visual language of Islamic scared arts. Her reliefs evokes presence to become a remembrance, glorification and praises of Allah/God, God’s Divine Oneness and Uniqueness through His Divine Names.

The Wing of Palestine is both elegy and embrace, a luminous gesture of love, compassion, admiration, unwavering solidarity and deep emotional kinship with the Palestinian people. For her, The Wing of Palestine is the wing of light that stands as a timeless poetic witness and and visual prayer in the form of honorary pin that reflects her belief in the transformative power of art to express empathy and preserve dignity in the face of immeasurable, unimaginable and indescribable suffering.