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 [...]
It is an overwhelming experience writing about the art of Mussarat Mirza; an icon and a living legend in the Artscape of Pakistan despite her reclusive disposition from the mainstream art milieu of the country, her career spans 5 decades and seeks to defy categorizations into oversimplified labels. The extensive breadth of the display at her recen [...]
Full Circle Gallery, KarachiReviwed by Paul-Mehdi Rizvi
Is it possible to have one’s aesthetic perceptions ruined by the orthodoxies of Fine Art? An affirmative answer to this query can indeed be presented logically within the framework of counterfactual statements – that is, when one expands on a given situation or scenario in order to e [...]
Recent times have witnessed an explosion of art exhibitions, quite a few of which have been wildly curated without any qualified understanding of the parameters of curatorship. Such exhibitions end up being, in essence, productions with no definite aim other than to be the conduit of the producer’s ideas. On the other hand, some exhibi [...]
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 [...]