Guided Tour: PARTING/فراق with Sarah Quinton

A program of:
Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق

Friday, March 27
4pm–5pm

Location: 
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
7 Hart House Circle

Join curator Sarah Quinton in the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery for an hour of careful observation and slow looking. Take your time with Hangama Amiri’s detailed narrative works, noticing how she skilfully handles her materials to tread the fine line between figuration and abstraction. 

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 

Sarah Quinton lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She has curated many exhibitions that put cultural inclusivity, social awareness, and accessibility at the forefront through educational programs and community outreach. Her curatorial practice includes benchmark projects that have come to define a discourse that focuses on complex intersections between art, craft, and design, and she has written extensively on Canadian artists and their contributions to the field of contemporary textiles. Sarah is Curatorial Director Emeritus of the Textile Museum of Canada.