Shamsia Hassani ( Dari شمسیه حسنی ); real name - Ommolbanin Hassani ; 1988 ) - Afghan graffiti artist , teacher of fine art and associate professor of drawing and anatomical drawing at Kabul University . She popularized street art in the streets of Kabul and exhibited her works in several countries, including India, Iran, Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Vietnam, Norway, Denmark, Turkey and Italy, as well as in diplomatic missions in Kabul [1] [2] . Hassani creates graffiti in Kabul to draw attention to wartime [2] . In 2014, Hassani was named among the Top 100 global thinkers according to the Foreign Policy magazine [3] [4] .
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Biography
Hassani was born in 1988 and spent her childhood in Iran, where her parents temporarily emigrated from Kandahar (Afghanistan) during the war. She showed interest in painting from early childhood. While studying in the ninth grade, Hassani did not have the opportunity to engage in art classes, since this was not allowed to the Afghans in Iran. Upon returning to Kabul in 2005, she received an arts degree from the University of Kabul. Hassani has a bachelor's degree in painting and a master's degree in fine art from the Kabul University of Afghanistan.
She later began lecturing and eventually became an associate professor of drawing and anatomical drawing at Kabul University, and also created the Berang Arts modern art group [5] [6] [7] . Creating colorful graffiti, Hassani seeks to mask the negative effects of the war [8] . She claims that “the image has a greater effect than words, and is a benevolent way to fight. [8] . With her art, Hassani also fights for women's rights, reminding people of the tragedies that women have faced and continue to face in Afghanistan. [8] .
Hassani studied graffiti art in Kabul in December 2010 during workshops organized by Chu, a UK graffiti artist. [9] After these classes, Hassani began to practice graffiti on the walls and streets of Kabul. Since creating graffiti is cheaper than traditional forms of art, Hassani decided to continue working with this form of street art. One of her works is located on the walls of the Kabul Cultural Center and shows a woman dressed in a burqa sitting under a staircase. The caption below says: “Water can return to a dried river, but what about the fish that died?” ( The water can come back to a dried-up river, but what about the fish that died? ) To avoid public harassment and claims that her work is “non-Islamic,” Shamsia Hassani is trying to quickly complete her work (within 15 minutes) [7] .
War and Burqa
In 2013, she said: “I want to paint the bad memories of the war on the walls, and if I paint these bad memories, I erase [the war] from people's minds. “I want Afghanistan to be famous for its art, and not its war [6] .”
Hassani predominantly depicts stylized, monumental images of women in burkas. According to her, she wants to show that women returned to Afghan society with new, stronger ones: full of energy, who want to start all over again [6] . In her interview, Hassani explained: “I believe that there are many people who forget all the troubles that women face in Afghanistan, so I use my paintings as a means to remind people of this. I want to cover this issue in society with the help of ubiquitous images of women in burkas ... I try to make people look at them differently [10] . ”
As a female graffiti artist, Hassani is often subjected to pressure due to the fact that many residents of Kabul consider it unacceptable from the point of view of Islam that a woman draws graffiti on the street [11] .
Notes
- ↑ Shamsia Hassani . Kabul Art Project. Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Graham-Harrison, Emma . Shamsia Hassani (February 24, 2012). Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 | Shamsia Hassani Neopr . Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ Shamsia Hassani: Afghanistan's Street Art Star - in pictures , The Guardian (December 17, 2014).
- ↑ شبکه آموزشی تربیتی رشد (pers.) . Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Shamsia Hassani: 'I want to color over the bad memories of war' (September 17, 2015). Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Clark, Nick . Afghan graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani shortlisted for Artraker Award - but she still has to dodge landmines to create her work (September 14, 2014). Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Street Art Bio | Street Artists Biographies . Street Art Bio | Street Artists Biographies . Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ Portfolio of interior and exterior artwork designed and painted by Chu . Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ Street Art Bio - Street Artists Biographies . Street Art Bio - Street Artists Biographies . Date accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ She Is Afghanistan's First Street Artist, and She Might Actually Change Our Views . The Huffington Post UK . Date accessed August 31, 2019.
Links
- - the official website of Shamsia Hassani