City of Scraps | Hamida Khatri

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City of Scraps, Hamida Khatri (Baltimore, MD)

Baltimore Goes Elsewhere Fellow. August 2017. Acrylic on found wood, string lights.

City of Scraps serves as a visual representation of Khatri's immigration experience into the US from Pakistan. The imagery produced by the artist translates a socioeconomic divide in a third world country to inevitable issues of gentrification within the US.

While in residence, Khatri observed a constant migration of artists, educators, and creatives causing a constant renewal ‘in spirit’ to the architecture of the museum—each leaving their own unpreventable mark across Elsewhere's three floors. Khatri invites audiences to reminisce old memories while creating new as Scraps reflects on what is lost as places and populations shift and change.

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Hamida Khatri
Hamida Khatri

Hamida Khatri is an artist, writer, curator, arts educator, community activist, and a creative arts therapist, raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and living in Baltimore, U.S. She works in a variety of mediums, from figurative drawings, to photography, to sculptural puppets, to animation. She holds an MFA in Community Arts and a Certificate in Teaching from the Maryland Institute College of Art (U.S.), Certificate in Humanistic Counseling (U.K.), and an MBA in Marketing (Pakistan). Her personal work embodies the spirit of feminist ideologies and seeks to document the uncharted memories of domesticated women, within patriarchal societies. As the Founder and Director of 'Creative Therapy Platform — A Voluntary Travel-Community Project, she helps transform space into healthy communal place where meditative art-making is practiced.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Khatri created City of Scraps.

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