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Risham Syed: Blackbirding
The visual language of colonial heritage embodied in the architecture or mundane ornaments of our lives is often unnoticed. Perhaps it is because we r [...]
Noorjehan Bilgrami: The Avant-Garde
Noorjehan Bilgrami in her Sri Lanka studio.
A painter, textile designer, gallery owner, entrepreneur, curator, researcher, educationist and a social a [...]
In Conversation with Salima Hashmi
Salima Hashmi is an acclaimed artist, writer and the Founding Dean of the School of Visual Arts & Design at the Beaconhouse National University, L [...]
Tazeen Qayyum: The Anatomy of Discomfort
There is a price to pay for apathy. One thinks of poor Gregor in Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’, who wakes up as a giant cockroach, unable to act and eventua [...]
Iqbal Geoffrey: The Incredible Artist of Our Times
“I took two hundred drawing to Ali Imam and asked him to pick 100, which he thought were the best. He chose one hundred works on paper. Then I a [...]
Karachi Biennale’22: A preview interview with the dynamic artist-curator Faisal Anwar
"To me, biennales have an opportunity to present a city to the rest of the world through the language of art. [...]
The Politics of Annihilation – Adeela Suleman
As the narratives of brutality, apprehension and danger, woven into Karachi’s fabric are dwelled upon; it is not difficult to imagine that t [...]
“UN-WEAVE”: The Quiet Imaginings of Sabina Gillani
In her recent solo exhibition titled Un-Weave, at Lahore’s prestigious Rohtas 2 Gallery, in collaboration with the commencement of the Lahor [...]
Lahore Biennale 02: Samina Iqbal in conversation with Dr. Iftikhar Dadi at Pak Tea House, Lahore
Dr. Iftikhar Dadi is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Director of the South Asia Program at Cornell University. He is the a [...]
NAZIA ANDALEEB PREEMA AND FRANCESCA CAROL ROLLA IN CONVERSATION DHAKA, BANGLADESH.
Francesca Carol Rolla: Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 2020. Here we are together to push forward current and future projects. Preema, I would l [...]