“The women and the people in my work say things that I’ve wanted to say; that I wish I could have said when I was younger. They say things that I have said. They’re people I want to be; people I have been, and women I look up to”
Maria Qamar. Photo: Happy Monday For South Asian women “Fraaaandship?” is an inside joke, an unwanted solicitation, the sound of strange men creeping into your DMs. “Fraaaandship!” is also the title of Maria Qamar’s art installation at the Richard Taittinger Gallery, on display through September 2. Qamar is a Pakistani-Canadian artist who rose to prominence on Instagram, where she illustrates the experiences of South Asian millennial women as soap-operatic, Roy Lichtenstein–inspired pop art.
Online harassment can be so absurd that people laugh and bond over it, but often it’s still underscored by violence. How do you use pop art to balance that tension? Photo: Richard Taittinger Gallery The exhibit features pieces about sisterhood, but there are also clapbacks, like Mera Jism, Mera Hathyar! . What was it like putting those two tones side-by-side?
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