La fille et le dragon

Kubra Khademi, Nicole Lapierre
 
“One day in the winter of 1989, in Mashhad, Iran, in a poor family of refugees from Afghanistan fleeing the Soviet army, the Mujahedin and the persecution inflicted by the Afghan Sunnis on the Hazara Shiites, a little girl is born with her hands wide open, a sign of good things to come for the household. She was the sixth of ten siblings. The mullah refuses to choose a name for her and inscribe her in the family Koran. What’s the point? She’s a girl. Finally called Kubra, which means «great», the child showed a gift for drawing from a very early age. It was a gift like a piece of armour, protecting and fortifying her against the horrors of a life under the double fetters of religious and patriarchal fanaticism. Armed with her pencils, brushes and unfailing determination, Kubra heads for Kabul to embark on an incredible odyssey as an international artist. With a sacred mission: to slay the dragon! This is the journey she recounts in drawings, entrusting her story to Nicole Lapierre, who puts it into words. The result is a unique and magnificent book, a book of truth about the invincibility of art, an ode to women, life and freedom.”
 
Kubra Khademi, is a Hazara artist and performer from Afghanistan, born in 1989. She first came to international attention with her performance “Armor”, in which she crossed Kabul’s main square in armor, forcing her to flee the country. In 2020, she was granted French nationality, and has since multiplied her artistic projects all over the world. La Fille et le Dragon is her first incursion into graphic novels.
 
Nicole Lapierre is a French anthropologist and sociologist whose work focuses on the relationship between art and anthropology. Director of research emeritus at the CNRS, she is the author of numerous books, including Sauve qui peut la vie, Prix Médicis essai 2015.
 
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Published by Editions Denoël
Collection Denoël Graphic
392 pages – 16,2 x 22,0 cm
2024
EAN 9782207182796
Paperbook : 39,90 €
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EDITION COLLECTOR :
 
Hardcover book accompanied by a color silkscreen print produced by the studio TCHIKEBE (Marseille) – 15 x 20 cm
Signed and numbered by Kubra Khademi
Limited to 75 copies
Price : 225 €
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EXHIBITION :
 
Kubra Khademi, La fille et le dragon (14/09-19/10/2024 | Paris)