Afghan woman, 2019
Afghan woman, 2019
Afghan woman, 2019
Afghan woman, 2019
Name
Azita Ibrahimi
Biography
Azita Ibrahimi (1990- Herat Afghanistan) currently lives in Germany since 2022, she is a fellow researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She is an artist and an art researcher. She graduated from the fine arts faculty in Tehran and completed her bachelor’s degree in painting at Herat University. Now she is a Ph.D. student, and her field of research is Afghan women’s needlework.
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Artist Statement
I found art under the fingers of women who take care of all household chores and embroider until midnight next to a dim lamp. She may make the handkerchief of a newly-groom who has reached his lover after many years, or she may embroider a shawl (scarf) that shows the love and affection of the lover to the lover in all its flowers and leaves.
I saw the art in the hidden smile of the embroiderer who weaves a delicate handkerchief for her lover in her imagination so that when he appears, she can wipe a red apple with the embroidering handkerchief and present it to his with love.
I saw art in the tears of a mother who, with her hand embroidery, was able to help the father of the family and solve a corner of the family's economy.
Yes, I saw art as natural in the hearts of people! People without hypocrisy, pure intention, honest and truthful. I understood the essence of art when I sat down with pleasant and patient women and asked them the main reason for their designs. I understood art when I saw anthropological aesthetics under the vision and fingers of rural women.
I understood art, because I understood human being, and that human being is the offended and bitter women of my homeland, Afghanistan.
I saw the art in the hidden smile of the embroiderer who weaves a delicate handkerchief for her lover in her imagination so that when he appears, she can wipe a red apple with the embroidering handkerchief and present it to his with love.
I saw art in the tears of a mother who, with her hand embroidery, was able to help the father of the family and solve a corner of the family's economy.
Yes, I saw art as natural in the hearts of people! People without hypocrisy, pure intention, honest and truthful. I understood the essence of art when I sat down with pleasant and patient women and asked them the main reason for their designs. I understood art when I saw anthropological aesthetics under the vision and fingers of rural women.
I understood art, because I understood human being, and that human being is the offended and bitter women of my homeland, Afghanistan.