Hangama Amiri: A Homage to Home
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
January 25 – August 11, 2024
Departure, 2022
Muslin, cotton, polyester, clear vinyl, iridescent paper,
faux leather, chiffon, and found fabric, 68 ½ x 85 inches.
Courtesy of the artist and T293, Rome.
© Hangama Amiri. Photo: Jason Mandella.
Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri combines painting and printmaking techniques with textiles, weaving together stories based on memories of her homeland and diasporic experience. Hangama Amiri fled Kabul with her family in 1996 when she was seven years old. Moving through numerous countries over several years, they immigrated to Canada in 2005 when Hangama Amiri was a teenager. Large-scaled with frayed edges, Hangama Amiri’s textile works are made from layering fabrics, piecing and sewing them together, so the fragments collectively characterize her home from a distance. Hangama Amiri’s work is centered on the lives of women. She often builds interiors that capture her protagonists within domestic and entrepreneurial spaces and amplify a collective struggle for women’s rights in Afghanistan and around the world.
Hangama Amiri: A Homage to Home is organized by Amy Smith-Stewart, chief curator, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, where it debuted in February 2023.
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4420 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64111
