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Battleground: War Carpets from Afghanistan – Opening Reception
Wednesday April 23, 2008 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2H5 Get Directions
Curated by Max Allen. Helicopters, AK-47 rifles, armoured personnel carriers, grenades, tanks, bombers, land mines, machine guns. These are the images on a new and electrifying kind of oriental rug – the “war carpets” from Afghanistan.

When the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Afghan weavers found their world turned upside down, the sky and the earth thick with weaponry. On their rugs, flowers turned into cluster bombs, birds turned into airplanes. The disaster continued during the following ten years of brutal civil war. And it continues today as international forces battle in an ancient land that has exploded. The carpets are a record of these events.

April 23rd- January 27th, 2009
Opening Reception April 23rd, 6:30 pm. Opening Remarks at 6:45.


Textile Museum of Canada
416 599 5321
info@textilemuseum.ca
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