An Artist Puts Kabul in a New Light (With Lipstick and Manicure)

Hangama Amiri | Ted Loos, The New York Times
"The images in her colorful fabric wall hangings are drawn from the past—partly based on her memories of being a young child in Kabul, before her family fled and became refugees for almost a decade. They're also visions of a better future for women in her native country, which she visited as an adult in 2010 and 2012.

The creation of her large, complex compositions—a laborious process that, in its early stages, involves many pins and pieces of fabric—was also a construction, or a reconstruction, of the self: 'I'm pinning and sewing my identity,' she said."

 

 

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February 9, 2023