Bahar Arfan describes her short film From Guantanamo Prison until August 15 as a protest work.
Arfan writes: ‘To express this project, I have used the colour orange. My experience with this colour was when I saw the news about the Guantanamo prison on social media. Later, I saw that the ISIS group covered their victims with orange colour and killed them.
The orange-clad people of Guantanamo prison have now, with the connivance of their jailers, dressed the people of Afghanistan in orange, and women are the most victims of this invisible prison
I, as a woman, have been one of the victims of this conspiracy and I am one of those wearing orange. Since women are the most and deepest victims of this conspiracy, for this reason, the colour orange is a symbol of the condemnation and oppression of women during the period of the Taliban’.
Bahar Arfan was born in 2000 in Tehran. She completed her studies in her homeland and entered Kabul University in 2018.
After the fall of the republic, Bahar immigrated to Germany and is currently a student at " University Of Art and Design Offenbach". She is an official member of Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in Exile e.V.
Due to the situation of war and significant gender inequality in Afghanistan, her artistic endeavors have focused on violence against women. She is now working on new project, to expose the patriarchal culture in the society, and asks questions as why are women imprisoned in Afghanistan despite their freedom, and why are women subjected to a variety of forms of violence in general? Circumstances include intellectual violence, Political violence, family mindset, from the right to choose to their participation in society and politics, influences her activities.
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