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…
Meher Afroz’s multilayered art connects strands of thought with rich and restrained color. It holds secrets that concern the nature of existence and is impregnated with esoteric meaning. As one of Pakistan’s most iconic contemporary artists, Meher’s decades-long output richly…
The Aurat March is a space where art meets activism. Here song and dance, talks and posters communicate the struggles of women: for control over their body, escape from abusive marriages, demands for basic rights like justice, security and education.…
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 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…
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…
Young artists who feel disconnected with the past may ask why is institutional memory important? How does it help us individually and professionally? These are important questions because academics, historians and cultural institutions have only been able to offer a…
Textiles are one of humanity’s oldest inventions, yet they renew endlessly. From the earliest woven fragments of the Indus Valley to the intricate embroideries of modern-day Pakistan, dyed, embroidered, and stitched cloth has carried memory, identity, and the accumulated knowledge…
When Zohra Husain opened Chawkandi Art gallery, in September of 1985, it was the era of Ali Imam’s Indus Gallery. Writing in The Star, columnist Irfan Husain was sceptical of this new “venture.” While he welcomed the gallery as an…
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