Rights of Passage

Rights of Passage incorporates motifs from the graves of women at the Makli Hill necropolis near the Indus River Delta in Pakistan, where the designs on the graves resemble the embroidered garments and jewelry the women wore in life. The repetition of these designs on both clothing and graves represents the ambiguous boundaries between the two. The piece pays tribute in both reality and memory to women who arrive silently and leave silently, their importance sometimes recognized only in their death. It consists of drawings and print media with threads and beads.

• Artist: Anila Agha
• Location: Ticketing Hall
• Installation: January 28 - May 2, 2013

About the Artist: Artist Anila Agha is an assistant professor of drawing at the Herron School of Art at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. She completed her bachelor of fine arts in textile arts in Pakistan and earned her master of fine arts in fiber arts from the University of North Texas. Agha exhibits her mixed-media drawings and installations extensively, both nationally and internationally.