Under Covers

“This is the story Lulu told me when I was little, since before my mom died. There’s a man. He’s very sick. … When girls misbehave, when they don’t do as they’re told, that man comes and takes them.” The post Under Covers appeared first on The American Scholar. Hangama Amiri migrated with her family from their native Afghanistan to Canada after the Taliban seized power in the mid-1990s. Two years ago, as the Taliban was gaining ground once again, Amiri was asked to create works for a solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She dedicated it to the past, present, and future of women’s lives in the country of her birth. “It reflects my childhood and also my present memories of being in Afghanistan,” she says, “really focusing on women’s participation in society and their entrepreneurship and the shorter phase of the peace that was in Afghanistan—how much fragile progress they had made in the past 20 years.” These works are now a part of the exhibition A Homage to Home, which runs through June 9. Installation Views of A Homage to Home at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Photo Credit: Jason Mandella. Aziz,