Kubra Khademi is born in 1989 in Afghanistan. She is an Afghan multidisciplinary artist and a feminist. Kubra Khademi shows two silk prints with individual women giving birth to animals: crouching, lying or standing, here they bring a goat and a chicken into the world. Drawing a parallel with the treatment of women and domesticated animals in Afghanistan, she underlines the degradation of women as ‘birth machines’ –– and the focus placed on fertility as their seemingly greatest value.

Kubra Khademi is represented by the Galerie Eric Mouchet at Asia NOW 2023.