Painting detention: Asylum seeker #art highlights the perils and the pain
A simple question lies at the heart of Shokufa Tahiri’s painting The Voyage, which is inspired by her father’s perilous sea journey to Australia to escape persecution by the Taliban in 1999.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/painting-detention-asylum-seeker-art-highlights-the-perils-and-the-pain-2014
#réfugiés #asile #migration #détention #détention_administrative #rétention #Afghanistan #peinture #Australie
Tahiri’s painting is one of more than 100 artworks by refugees and asylum seekers held in the #Villawood Immigration Detention Centre that will be exhibited in #Still_Alive, which opens at Stanley Street Gallery in Darlinghurst on August 4.