In a world preoccupied with certainty, Sara Aslam’s work offers something quietly radical: permission to remain in flux. Across the globe, cities are growing at unprecedented rates, with over 56% of the world’s population now living in urban areas, a…
The millions who live in the cities of today are often polarized by economic stratification and ideological differences; the social rupture can be further exacerbated by heavy state policing of public spaces. In a tense cityscape like this, public art…
An art museum can serve as a powerful monument, a place where histories can be revisited, reclaimed, and given a new voice. The oldest museums in our country are archaeological in nature, framed by perspectives constructed by outsiders. The narratives…
Shahzia Sikander’s recent installation of sculptures titled Hawah …to breathe, air, life, stands in Madison Square Park (Witness) and the Supreme Court (NOW) in New York— with this comes the honor of being the first artist of Pakistani origin to…
Many questions about Karachi were left unanswered as I grew up between erasure and nostalgia in this city. The colonial built heritage with its linear history echoed the imperialist narrative which for decades became the only truth we knew. It…
When Hernando de Soto came up with the term ‘Dead Capital’, it was mainly referring to the economic activity outside the formal structure. A people’s economy that is often bigger, more resilient and embedded in its context but is never…
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