It’s Important That the Bug Undulates

Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence is at the Seattle Asian Art Museum through July 7.by Lindsay CostelloAnida Yoeu Ali deals heavily in dichotomies and paradoxes. As a first-generation Muslim Khmer artist born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago, Ali’s works tease out the spiritual and political underpinnings of her hybrid transnational identity. Her textile works simultaneously veil and draw attention to the form that wears them; in performance, she becomes both dazzling and obscured, a solitar