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.…
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…
Colombo rests upon a living, aqueous tapestry of thirty-six wetland patches that intertwine with some 50 km of meandering canal.33 The city is neither entirely water nor land, remaining in a perpetual state of flux further shaped by legacies of…
The book The Living Heritage of Hazara: An Ode to the Makers and Memory Keepers by Amina Ali is a vibrant celebration of the culture, cuisine, and musical traditions of the Hazara community. The Hazara are an ethnic group native…