Karachi --- On occasion of Chawkandi Art Gallery’s 40th anniversary, Dialogues Across Time invited seventeen practicing artists to come vis-à-vis with experienced veterans, who once shaped the gallery’s advancement in its early years. Chawkandi’s founder Zohra Hussain recalls these initial…
Celebrating 40 years of Chawkandi Art Gallery is a curatorial endeavor by art critic and curator Amra Ali, spanning two shows linked through a thematic of deep complexity. It opens up a comparative study between visual art, poetic texts, and…
The works of Sumaira Tazeen are a visual soliloquy of her life, lived experiences and observations of the society she lives in, delivered in a garb of symbols and metaphors. Trained in the traditional South Asian art form of miniature,…
The human urge for storytelling has existed as long as recorded history (or perhaps it prompted the need for the latter), and though it takes on different forms and flavors depending on location, culture and time, its need transcends such…
In a show that took place in September last year at AAN Art Space and Museum, artist and educationalist Sadia Salim addresses ecological concerns through a commentary on man’s toxic relationship with land—articulated within a subjective exploration that lends itself…
The first solo show of Anusha Ramchand Novlani, Seven Billion Beliefs, features large scale sculptures based off of architectural structures from around the city of Karachi that highlight the religious and cultural diversity of the city through its iconic landmarks.…
Discussing the art of Aisha Khalid is no simple task; it requires a navigation of dualities and multiplicities, and a reigning in of ideas spread across a conceptual, disciplinary and methodological expanse. Her layered socio-political commentary responds to her experiences…
Since time immemorial man has been attempting to make sense of the complex world around him; compressing and simplifying it through doctrines and scriptures, organizing a multifarious existence into easily digestible absolutes. However, in the current age of globalization and…
One of the goals of ancient science of alchemy was to purify, mature and perfect certain materials—the transmutation of base metals. Everything in the universe was thought to be made up of the four elements namely., earth, fire, wind, water,…
In a time when the global population is forced to isolate, socially distance itself and come to terms with its socio-economic disparities in a real way, a recent show attempts to bridge various forms of gaps in the art world.…
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