Hoda Afshar Artist Talk
Sun, 17. Nov 2019
City Gallery Wellington
Te Ngākau Civic Square
Wellington, New Zealand
Te Ngākau Civic Square
Wellington, New Zealand
Iranian-Australian artist Hoda Afshar discusses her photographic practice, including her award-winning portrait of Behrouz Boochani—the Iranian-Kurdish writer and asylum seeker who was detained on Manus Island for seven years but has now arrived in New Zealand.
Afshar will also show an excerpt of her film Remain.
She is joined in conversation with Murdoch Stephens, editor and refugee campaigner #DoubletheQuota.
Artists
Hoda Afshar
HODA AFSHAR was born in Tehran, Iran (1983), and is now based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a Bachelor degree in Fine Art– Photography in Tehran, and her PhD thesis in Creative Arts at Curtin University. Hoda began her career as…
Murdoch Stephens
Dr. Stephens is the editor of publishing collective Lawrence & Gibson. He has a PhD on critical theory and climate change from Massey University, and was the driving force behind the double the refugee quota campaign, which is now gover…
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