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…
I have lived in Pakistan for seventeen years and as much as I love the culture and feel at home here, I still feel like a foreigner. I grew up in a typical Australian family in Northern NSW where the…
May 09th 2026 saw the opening of In Minor Keys, the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by the (late) Koyo Kouoh. Once again, included in the roster of nations represented at the biennale, is a…
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…
The British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “the logical picture of a fact is a Gedanke”.22 Simply put, Wittgenstein considered the act of thinking as a kind of a pictorial operation. Thoughts, sentences, and images represent reality by arranging…
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…
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…
When I first came across the title Interrupted Reveries, I found myself pausing to think about the display. The curator Fatma Shah translates this title as ‘Khwab o Khayal’ in Urdu. And this reminded me of the French philosopher Gaston…