Text & Visuals | Sara Yawar – Issue 49 – This year, a great number of queer artists have showcased their work in Karachi, Pakistan. Topics like sexuality, space and gender have been addressed with each artist having their own particular language and visual imagery. In this particular article a few artists will be focused …
Text | Mariam Qureshi – Visuals | As mentioned – Issue 48 – The Surrealists sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. They believed the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighing it down with taboos. The Surrealist impulse to tap the unconscious mind, and …
Text | Sara Yawar – Visuals | Courtesy of Citizens Archive Pakistan – Issue 48 – The National History Museum, a project initiated by the Government of Punjab, was inaugurated on the 17th of April, 2018 in Lahore. Curated by the Citizen’s Archive of Pakistan, this project aimed to honor Pakistan’s history dating up to …
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Text | Sara Yawar – Visuals | Courtesy Canvas Gallery – Issue 48 – An exhibition titled ‘The Summer Show’ took place at Canvas Gallery in Karachi on the 18th of June and was held till the 27th of June, 2019. Curated by Hameed Haroon, this show comprised of works by various artists that have …
Compiled | Talha Ahmed Kehar – Photography | As mentioned – Issue 47 – Venice Biennale opened to the public on May 11th 2019, the title for this iteration being “May You Live in Interesting Times”. The usage of “interesting times” immediately evokes a sense of hopefulness and dread, this sentiment was mirrored by the …
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Text & Visuals | Wajahat Ali & Zeina Naseer Butt – Issue 47 – The Picture Wall (PW) is one of the principal features of the Lahore Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is 1,510 feet long with an average height of 50 feet and forms the northwestern façade of the Lahore Fort. Built …
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Text | Dua Abbas Rizvi – Visuals | As Mentioned – Issue 47 – For their latest urban intervention, Numaish Karachi looked to the walled city of Lahore and found it analogous to One Thousand and One Nights – that legendary, intricate, and indefatigable collection of tales that has not only survived long centuries of darkness …
Text | Shanzay Subzwari – Photography | Humayun Memon – Issue 47 – I walked into the gallery space of the Alliance Francaise de Karachi, greeted by an assortment of creative media that was organized by Goethe Institute Karachi. The large-scale collages and mixed media pieces that adorned the walls soon gave way to a …
Text | Shanzay Subzwari – Visuals | Artists and Galleries – Issue 46 – 2018 has been a dynamic year for art exhibitions in Karachi. Koel Gallery showcased a number of exciting exhibitions. Curator Aziz Sohail was invited to curate Drawn to Form II by artist Abdullah M.I Syed, which was a follow up to …
Text | Aasim Akthar – Visuals | Courtesy writer & artist – Issue 46 – Babar Gull’s linear paintings pose formal dilemmas, linguistic slippages, and categorical paradoxes that turn formal analysis into a game – and perhaps that’s the point. To attempt to describe these pieces is to willingly abandon the possibility of fixity, as …
