Icons · 2025
Farkhunda
Exhibited
- Created
- 2025
- Medium
- Hand-fractured laminated safety glass, black-backed
- Dimensions (with frame)
- 90 × 80 × 2 cm · 35.4 × 31.5 × 0.8 in
- Weight
- 14 kg · 30.9 lb
- Frame
- 6063 aluminium, ready to hang
- Includes
- Signed certificate of authenticity
Commission a work like this
This original is not for sale. Yasin can create a completely new work from your own photographs, with the same hand-fractured technique.
Lifetime artist care
If the work is damaged in normal use in the years after delivery, Yasin repairs it in person, wherever it hangs. Only travel and accommodation are paid by the collector; natural disasters such as fire or flood, and deliberate damage, are not covered.
Care & display
Laminated safety glass holds together even when cracked, so the work is safe to hang and handle. Hang it where a single directional light — a spot or a window — rakes across the surface; the fractures change as you move.
About the work
Some traces exist to remain.
Farkhunda is dedicated to the memory of Farkhunda Malikzada, who was killed by a mob in Kabul in 2015.
She was meant to be silenced for defending the truth. A rumour set a crowd in motion, and a crowd set out to destroy a person. The hands that surrounded her were not aimed at a body alone, but at thought, at dissent and at the search for justice.
In this work, the hand reaching upward stands not only for a person’s last moment, but for a will that others tried to suppress — and that keeps rising. The hands coming from below are not only violence; they are fear and ignorance in another form. A crowd can silence one person, but the truth lives on in the marks a blow leaves behind.
The fractured surface is not destruction but testimony. Every crack carries the memory of a strike. These marks cannot be erased, because some stories exist so that they are not forgotten.
Farkhunda’s voice was silenced, but her name became a memory. This work is one way of looking at that memory.
Created in 2025, the work was exhibited at the Aydın Women’s Rights Protection Association on 4 February 2026. It is now kept in the artist’s studio.
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