ARTISTS

Kubra Khademi

Sher Ali

Kubra Khademi invites her friend Sher Ali on Galerie Eric Mouchet’s stand at AsiaNow-Paris 2023 Afghan activist, performer and painter Kubra Khademi (*1989) shares our stand with her compatriot and friend Sher Ali (*1983). Both artists in exile (Khademi in France since 2015, Ali in Australia since 2021) paint with gouache on paper in the continuity of the Mughal tradition of miniature that they initially learned at the Art High School in Kabul. Through this media, they intend to share with the world their love for their country and for freedom. Sher Ali fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took Kabul in August 2021, and personally experienced the gathering with thousands of people in an airport which was both a concentrate of misery and, for only some of them, the last door to hope and freedom. Ali’s works that we’re featuring are toughly depicting the moment of the evacuation, highlighting the situation’s disturbing disregard for human life.