Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Befarmā / After You, a solo exhibition featuring new fiber-based works by Hangama Amiri. This marks the artist’s West Coast debut.
Amiri is an Afghan Canadian artist whose practice combines painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques with textiles, weaving together stories rooted in memories of her homeland and her diasporic experience. Her works explore notions of home, community, gender, and cultural memory, examining quotidian objects and scenes imbued with geopolitical significance.
Amiri employs a painterly approach to color and materials, combining fiber, block printing, and colored pencil. Her choice of materials is deeply autobiographical. Fleeing Kabul with her family in 1996 at the age of seven, she moved through multiple countries before immigrating to Canada in 2005. During this time, her mother taught her to sew, and her uncle worked as a tailor. The colors and fabrics in her work reference the textiles she remembers from Kabul’s bazaars and streets. Amiri constructs her textile pieces by layering, piecing, and sewing together fabrics to create intricate still lives, portraits, and environments. In Befarmā, she further expands the complexity of her surfaces, incorporating block printing, hand painting, and hand-drawn elements.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm