Nameless | Hamida Khatri

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Nameless, Hamida Khatri (Baltimore, MD)

Baltimore Goes Elsewhere Fellow. August 2017. Found wood, piano keys, lace, ribbon, wool.

Never having worked with found materials before, Khatri gathered various collection objects from the museum that she could connect with. As she began to assemble the objects together, a human-form marionette organically came into being.Through Nameless, Khatri found that "artmaking can be spontaneous and intuitive in nature. It does not have to be planned; it can be informed by the materials first."

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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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