This exhibition brings together recent works and related sketches by Hangama Amiri in her first major solo exhibition in Toronto. Amiri creates intricately layered textile compositions that muse on kinship, and memory, and the meaning of home. PARTING/فراق builds on an ongoing body of work that focuses on the artist’s personal history and diasporic experience during the nine-year period of familial separation that followed her family’s migration from Kabul in 1996, when the artist was seven years old. In the present, Amiri draws on family photographs and letters to create dense and lush collages that tend to her and her family’s daily lives in the diaspora, and witness the immense labour of caring for a family amidst migration and separation.
Organized and circulated by Esker Foundation, Calgary.
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Image: Hangama Amiri, Man With Vase of Tulips, 2024. Muslin, cotton, chiffon, velvet, polyester, silk, suede, and linen, 62.5″ x 53.5″. Courtesy of the artist and T293, Rome. Photo by Blaine Campbell.
