In the summer of 2025, I wandered beneath the large white marquee of the Bradford Literature Festival in the UK, browsing new books, exploring exhibitions, and attending a few talks and lecture performances.1 The most captivating session was “The Poetry…
The women in Farazeh Syed’s paintings come to us from colonially produced and disseminated photographs that never intended to tell the subjects’ real stories. Syed’s exploration of this history is presented in her solo exhibition, All the Women in Me.…
مشتاق گزدر کا کہنا ہے کہ اپنے تجربات کی روشنی میں اداکاری پر ریڈیو ،ٹیلی ویژن، فلم اور اسٹیج کے حوالے سے۔ اور ان میڈیا پر اداکاری میں جو فرق ہے اس پر ایک مضمون لکھ دوں۔ مضمون تین چار…
The more you immerse yourself in Sadequain’s art the more you become aware of the vast vision and intellectual depth that unfolds in his murals, paintings, drawings and illustrations. The ambition of his scale and inventive breadth comes together to…
The intrepid panel of researchers, photographers, writers, and activists who have compiled the information and gone on to publish the book Giving Voice to Silence redeem humanity by bearing witness to the multitudinous and harrowing tales of a subset of…
Cities keep stories They are embedded in weathered buildings and fading signboards, in brittle documents, forgotten photographs and carefully folded maps whose creases have survived generations of use. Some are preserved in libraries and museums; others remain hidden in private…
I walked into Intimate Resistance at The VASL Gallery on the 25th of November 2025 with a kind of cautious curiosity. Photography exhibitions in Pakistan are rare to begin with, and when they do happen, they often fall into familiar…
Mohsin Shafi’s exhibition Between Two Worlds, presented at Kunsthalle Krems Museum in Austria, unfolds as a layered engagement with spiritual and metaphysical frameworks, resonating strongly with emerging South Asian readings of Sufi cosmology. Shafi’s artist residency in Niederösterreich program at…
When the diverse quadrants of human experience convene in one show, it is an absorbing encounter that stays with the viewer and leads us to question reflexive paradigms of memory and social immersion. Ai Wei Wei says “Art has to…
At first glance, Eternal Imprints appears to be an exhibition about ancient rock art. Not quite. Moving through the galleries of The Barracks Art Museum in Lahore, it becomes clear that the show asks a crucial question: what happens when…