About the Author

Abdul Vas,born 1981 in Maracay, Venezuela, grew up living between Surinam, Guyana, and Belgium. He studied Fine Arts at EAVRA, Maracay, and later at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He created handmade books and zines, photographs, drawings, paintings, murals, and installations. Since 2004, he has realised several solo exhibitions for commercial galleries in Europe and the Americas, and has participated in many group exhibitions. In 2009, he was selected for the Beijing Biennale; in the same year, he exhibited 'My 57 States AC/DC' (Georgetown, Guyana). Since 2010, he has been working on the project 'North-American Truckers and AC/DC Power', exhibited at Disk Union (Tokyo, Japan). Abdul Vas lives and works in Amsterdam and Madrid.