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Artist Madhu Kumar has found a way to blend portraits with the actual stories of women whose voices often go unheard.

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Regina artist Madhu Kumar is no stranger to the many difficulties that are part and parcel of the experience of being an immigrant woman to Canada. She herself emigrated from India to Toronto in 2001, and this journey has given her a deep understanding of the unique struggles experienced by other immigrant women.

The inspiration for her new project The Stories of Immigrant Women goes back to 2001, when she met a woman in Toronto whose nine-year-old daughter attended elementary school with Kumar's own son. After picking her daughter up, this woman would have to take her child with her to her night job — a grocery store where she worked until 10pm every day. Struck by this, Madhu invited both mother and daughter to begin spending what free time they had at her own home, where she would sit and listen to the mother's stories. And while the resulting project is made up of massive portraits and augmented reality (just point your phone at any of the paintings and you'll actually hear the women's stories in their own words), perhaps the most important element of the project is the importance of active listening.

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