Asylum seeker art highlights the perils and the pain

#Shokufa_Tahiri: “Art is a very strong instrument. It’s an instrument for social change. Art is a companion for refugees in the mist of agony or dispair. The only way they can communicate effectively is the art. It’s like their best friend. There is no hesitation, through art you do not recognize. Through art you do not recognize any pressure or any barriers. The message is direct. And I think that art is an universal language, which anybody can use to speak their feelings or their state of conscious”
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Shokufa Tahiri @ STILL ALIVE Exhibition

A moving speech by Shokufa Tahiri, a former refugee and member of the Refugee Art Project women’s workshop in Parramatta. She is a spokesperson and advocate for the Afghan and Hazara refugee community in Sydney, who is currently studying a double degree in Law and Economics.

▻http://vimeo.com/103625927

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#citation du discours de Shokufa Tahiri :

“Being a refugee is no an option, being born at that side of the world and not this corner of the world is not an option, but a coincidence. Being faced with persecution, racism and discrimination, war and rage is not a desire, it is a coincidence. No human desires pain”