Guided Tour: PARTING/فراق with Samantha Lance

A program of:
Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق

Friday, April 10
4pm–5pm

Location:
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
7 Hart House Circle

Join independent curator Samantha Lance in the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery for a tour and conversation about domesticity and defiance, hope and tenderness. 

Hangama 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.

Free and open to the public! No registration is required.

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About the Facilitator 

Samantha Lance (she/her) is a curator and writer with an MVS in Curatorial Studies degree from the University of Toronto and a BFA with Distinction in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. She has worked with the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, C Magazine, the Art Gallery of Algoma, Onsite Gallery, Workman Arts, Station Gallery, Latitude Gallery New York, and Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine.

In 2024, Lance curated The Love that Remains, an exhibition of contemporary textile art at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.