When was shamsia hassani born

The Medium is The Message

Text by Jemima Montagu*

Shamsia Hassani is one of several young female artists who have made international headlines in the last few years for adopting graffiti art as a way of protesting about women’s rights, and the impact the war has had on women’s lives, exacerbating cultural traditions of repression and isolation.

Hassani uses the blue silhouette of the burqa to create a ghostly female figure which moves around the city, inhabiting places where women are usually unwelcome: public spaces,streets, broken buildings. “Every character in my artworks is me,” says Hassani, “because my problem is the same as every other Afghan woman’s.

How old is shamsia hassani

Our problem is not the burqa but the war”.

Shamsia Hassani is a founding member of one of Kabul’s most prominent artist collectives, Berang Association. She also teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Kabul University and participates in many international exhibitions.

But none of these things can be taken for granted. As