Aerial Cartographies
The month of August was welcomed by Natasha Shoro and Sara Khan who exhibited in a two person show 'Aerial Cartographies' at Canvas Gallery. One thing [...]
Under The Dust
Upon entering Saud Baloch’s solo show at Sanat Gallery, a sense of stillness ensued. The stillness did not evoke a sense of calm, rather, the realizat [...]
Studio Visit: Amin Rehman – A lucid expositor and a vivid writer
The great philosopher Socrates in 399 B.C. said that “an unexamined life is not worth living” prior to drinking a bowl of Hemlock poison by order of t [...]
Roots of Routes
Pedantic rows nuanced with heterogeneous capacities; a circus of a thousand stagnant bodies unswayed by the wind; the expanse of the city set a agains [...]
Click of a Button
The moment we realize that the computational power of an ordinary smartphone today is much more advanced that the first computer that took us to the m [...]
18.08.2016
Plans to be at the exhibition at five sharp have failed, I rush to the venue in a car with number plates from Lahore, without thinking much about it—n [...]
The Man Who Grew His Own Wing: Anwar Saeed
Sehr Jalil: Was observation the first alphabet of your ‘image-making’ or did imagination play a bigger role even in the beginning? Anwar Saeed: It i [...]
From Here to Beyond
The catalogue ‘Look at the City From Here’ is not just a publication connected to three exhibitions held at the Gandhara Art, but holds significance a [...]
Letter from the Editor in Chief
Art in Pakistan has reached the current level of sophistication and seriousness by embracing a diversity of viewpoints and examining them with an open [...]
The (Un)Making of Meaning (or When Meaning Begins to Make Us)
In a time when ideas of definitions, boundaries, representations and interpretations have gained an almost unparalleled fluidity, a subjecti [...]