Narrator of tales in clay
During the first year of our art school education, students were introduced to the art galleries that existed in the city then, one of them being Chawkandi, where Sheherezade Alam was showing her work. The gallery was a bit dark with spot lights focusing on the artefacts, pronouncing the forms and surfaces. That was t [...]
The art of creating experiences that bring meaning, culture and people together has been a passion for Pomme Amina Afzal. Over the last 10 years, her company Phenomena has worked to execute projects and events for philanthropy, education, fashion, galleries and corporations. She aligned her creativity with art direction and curation managing a var [...]
Rameesha Azeem’s interdisciplinary and site-specific curatorial project called “The Factory” invited 22 artists to explore and create installations inside the Chawla Footwear industrial enterprise. The participating artists were Abid Aslam, Suleman Khilji, Mohsin Shafi, Suleman Faisal, Rabbya Naseer, Unum Babar & Matt Kushan, Ammar Faiz, Saba [...]
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 [...]
Dastaangoi has been focused on delivering rich indigenous stories and visuals from across the country enchanting audiences since its conception in 2020. Their passion and commitment to growing an arts community span multicultural borders inviting international artists as jurors and open to forming alliances for art projects. The Dastaangoi Gallery [...]
‘Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift that speaks.’
— Simonides of Ceos
An audience can often misconstrue abstract art because most of them are looking for something tangible and concrete with which they can identify. It is natural to try to name and make sense of what we experience and perceive in the world, so p [...]
Abid Khalil Ansari’s portraiture and figurative paintings have an emotive depth that is sincere and compassionate. His studio practice, over the years, has explored the difficult social experiences of marginalised fractions that are living on the peripheries of our society. He engages his canvas to represent the overlooked and invisible, such as c [...]
If you have tears
'If you have tears' is a group show curated by a veteran art critic Quddus Mirza. A wonderful curation in May was conceived around the idea [...]
Microcosm 4
Opened at AAN Gandhara Gallery, Microcosm 4 brought a number of established and budding artists together. The group show, held at [...]
Ambivalence
A solo show by Waseem Ahmed opened at Sanat Initiative on April 6th, 2021 represented a powerfully evocative array of paintings on display. [...]
Past Present Future
Past Present Future is the inaugural show that marks the beginning of Koel Gallery & O Art Space’s collaborative venture. The significance of this [...]