As a platform committed to critical cultural production from and about the Global South, The Karachi Collective creates space for connecting struggles across geographies through art, testimony, and collective memory. Presented alongside the conversations taking place, on social media and…
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…
The British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “the logical picture of a fact is a Gedanke”.16 Simply put, Wittgenstein considered the act of thinking as a kind of a pictorial operation. Thoughts, sentences, and images represent reality by arranging…
The lake is already awake when the artists arrive. Houseboats rock gently, fastened more by habit than rope. Nets dry in uneven arcs along their wooden spines. Children lean over the water’s edge, watching reflections rupture and reform. For five…
We are twenty-five years into the new century, and despite all the curbs on freedom of expression Contemporary Art has successfully navigated the deeply fraught terrain and become an integral part of the country’s cultural consciousness. Curatorial practice has supported…
Punjab Panorama: A stylistic diversity in Painting and Graphics Author: Miriam Habib Originally published in NuktaArt, Vol 2, ONE, 2007 Cover Design: Sabiha Mohammad Imani Source of inspiration: Adeela Suleman 'Silencer 1 & 2', Rashid Arshad 'In Essence 13' and…
The cultural and economic value of textile craft micro-enterprises is often visible in present-day urban centres, projects led by non-profits, and consumerist practices in Pakistan. Reading through definitions of textile craft25, one comes across descriptions referring to activities engaged with…
Last year, I visited ‘The Haveli Museum’ in Karachi, where the exhibition The Coat of Many Colours displayed textile-based crafts from Sindh. These objects included bujhki37, coverlets, and posh38, among several others. Observing these items stirred a quiet nostalgia for…
To be nostalgic is to exist between fragments of a memory and its imagined idealization. Curated by Noor Ahmed, the exhibition fanaa is the eclipse at Sanat Initiative presents works by the artist Zahra Mansoor where it navigates the domestic…
The Iran, Israel and USA war has become increasingly about digital imagery, fake news, AI generated scenes as a part of its war strategy. The television and digital news channels churn out information that is too much to absorb and…