Murad Sharifi fears women will slowly 'disappear' behind the walls of their homes under Taliban rule. In the homeless shelter he lives in Budapest, Hungary, the Afghan refugee took to the canvas to express his concern
Sharifi, who fled to Hungary during the 2015 migration wave with tens of thousands of other asylum-seekers, says it is his "obligation" to show the oppression faced by women in his home country, worsening since the Taliban takeover in August.
Some of his more joyful works depict couples among leafy trees. But most feature starker scenes. In one, which he describes as an illustration of women's oppression, a woman is shown in a meat grinder with a bearded man squeezing her neck and pushing her down. In another, a woman, with her long hair freely floating, has faces of men running down the side of her green robe and a queue of them eyeing her suspiciously.
Under the Taliban, who took power in August, he expects women will slowly "disappear" behind the walls of their homes, as they were forced to do when the Taliban last ruled 20 years ago and banned them from work and school.
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