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Growing up in Kabul and in Central Asia, recent Yale grad Hangama Amiri was drawn to bazaars<\/a> and their abundance of textiles, as well as her uncle\u2019s tailor shop.\u00a0 Now in the US, Amiri has sourced similar materials from Afghan-owned businesses to create cloth collages picturing products and places in South Asian diasporic communities now on view at Albertz Benda Gallery<\/a>. \u201cFabric as a medium really is associated with memory,\u201d she explains in a statement<\/a> released by the gallery, \u201c\u2026fabric captures smell, and time, lot of bodily attachments \u2013 we are all wearing fabrics. It is also a fragile medium, so it really touches and resembles all those notions of memory I am talking about and it really reconnects with what I am trying to convey in my art\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Hangama Amiri, A.K. Fabric Shop, chiffon, silk, satin, muslin, cotton, lace, polyester, suede, paper, iridescent paper, denim, ikat printed fabric, faux leather, color pencil on fabric, velvet, camouflage, and found fabric, 113 x 99 inches, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up in Kabul and in Central Asia, recent Yale grad Hangama Amiri was drawn to bazaars and their abundance of textiles, as well as her uncle\u2019s tailor shop.\u00a0 Now in the US, Amiri has sourced similar materials from Afghan-owned businesses to create cloth collages picturing products and places in South Asian diasporic communities now … <\/p>\n

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