In Kabul, Khalid’s installation Viewpoint was featured as part of the “Living Traditions” exhibition at the Queen’s Palace in Bagh-e-Babur, where she masterfully blended art with reality. Her work transformed the palace’s elegant stone rooms into a striking canvas, where flowing, patterned perspectives and bursts of color seemed to fragment and scatter across the walls, evoking glimpses through a curtain or a moving burqa. The installation created a dynamic interplay between art and environment, inviting viewers to step into the painting itself. Here, traditional single-point perspective did not lead to an idealized space but instead directed the gaze out onto the war-torn landscape of the city.

Khalid’s use of small, circular forms in camouflage tones, reminiscent of bullet impacts, served as a poignant symbol of the region’s ongoing military strife. These forms, which also appear in vivid blood-red in her paintings, underscore the persistent shadow of conflict that defines the city’s reality. By juxtaposing symbolic and tangible elements, Khalid emphasized the fluidity of her artistic expression, drawing a powerful contrast between her vibrant, abstract forms and the stark realities of the world outside.