Hangama Amiri: poetics and artworks
Fondazione Imago Mundi
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"Qatra Qatra" Art Exhibition
About this episode
The curator Aman Mojadidi explains the poetics and artworks of Hangama Amiri, one of the four women artists of Afghan origin inside the exhibition «Qatra Qatra/Drop by Drop. Perspectives from Afghanistan» organized by Fondazione Imago Mundi at Gallerie delle Prigioni in Treviso, until January 9, 2022.
Hangama Amiri (Kabul, 1989) is an Afghan-Canadian painter and mixed-media artist, whose work concentrates on topics such as feminism, geopolitics, and gender. Having left Afghanist4n after the Talib4n takeover in the 1990s (when she was 6 years old), as a refugee, Amiri grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada. She received a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from NSCAD in Canada and completed her MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in the Painting & Printmaking Department at Yale University in 2020. Amiri exhibits her work internationally including in Canada, Italy, France, the USA, and Bulgaria. She is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Hangama Amiri (Kabul, 1989) is an Afghan-Canadian painter and mixed-media artist, whose work concentrates on topics such as feminism, geopolitics, and gender. Having left Afghanist4n after the Talib4n takeover in the 1990s (when she was 6 years old), as a refugee, Amiri grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada. She received a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from NSCAD in Canada and completed her MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in the Painting & Printmaking Department at Yale University in 2020. Amiri exhibits her work internationally including in Canada, Italy, France, the USA, and Bulgaria. She is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.