Moshtari Hilal, born 1993 in Kabul, is a visual artist based in Hamburg and Berlin. Hilal works with the drawn line as means and symbol of a new visual language that refers to the black-haired body. Her search for a visual expression narrates the sensual experiences of those who exist beyond our modern aesthetic concepts and their politics and leads her to autobiographical as well as archive and research work. She describes her current artistic practice as reconciliation with negated beauty. Moshtari Hilal studied Islamic Studies and Political Science in Hamburg, Amman, Berlin and London, where she focused her studies on feminist intellectual history and decolonial theory. Hilal is currently writing her master’s thesis on the spatial destruction of Kabul and its public memorialisation