Shamsia Hassani Graffiti

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Shamsia hassani graffiti. While graffiti artists work under the cover of darkness in the uk hassani cannot go out at night and bombings rule out the early mornings. 1988 tehran iran is a graffiti artist and a lecturer of fine arts at kabul university afghanistan. At the same time hassani is also navigating the boundaries that define gender roles in her country. Hassani paints graffiti in kabul to bring awareness to the war years.

Shah marai afp getty images one of hassani s dream of graffiti series. Her bright quirky graffiti is the first step in doing just that. Hassani is also involved in presenting this art work in a digital format through her project titled dreaming graffiti this presentation is made in a series in which she paints or photoshops colors and images onto digital photographs to explore issues of national and personal security. Shamsia hassani with spray can outside the french cultural centre kabul.

Shamsia s works have been exhibited in usa afghanistan india germany denmark switzerland italy turkey and other countries. I have started to do graffiti in 2010 in a graffiti workshop that organized with combat communications when a graffiti artist came from uk by name of chu to introduce and teach graffiti to us. This is the official website of afghanistan s first graffiti artist shamsia hassani. She received her bachelor s degree in arts in 2010 and master s degree in visual arts in 2014 from kabul university.

Here she paints over a photograph to. Hassani was born in 1988 and spent her childhood in iran where her parents had temporarily migrated from kandahar afghanistan during the war. She has motivated hundreds of afghans to bring in their creativity through her graffiti festivals art classes exhibitions in nine countries of three continents around the world. Our favourite street art tributes to the nhs.

Hassani showed interest in painting from a young age. Her murals are pieces of art on walls of afghanistan united states italy germany india vietnam switzerland denmark norways and other countries.