Author: Editor
Figuring Humanity
There is perhaps no subject in art more familiar than the human figure, and yet it continues to resist exhaustion. Simone de Beauvoir, in her gro [...]
What Remains
A Memory Catcher Visited My Town is a solo exhibition by artist Zahabia Khozema that took place at Vasl Gallery. The show grows out of the memori [...]
Seeing the Unseen
A group show of ten Pakistani figurative artists, curated by Scheherezade Junejo, opened on 6 August. It brings together painters, a sculptor, tw [...]
Redefining Mohenjo-daro
For nearly a century, our collective visual imagination of Mohenjo-daro has been anchored in the formidable architectural remains unveiled by ear [...]
Karachi through Taaza Tareen
It’s not every day that you walk into an art gallery located in the city’s most affluent locality and cultural precinct, and there [...]
Anchored, Yet Unbound
Some histories are written through exhibitions; others live in encounters, conversations and the traces artists leave behind. Vasl belongs to the [...]
Visual Vocabulary of Vasl
Established in Karachi in 2001, Vasl Artists’ Association has played a significant role in shaping Pakistan’s contemporary art landscape by creat [...]
Adeela Suleman: A Force in Art
Contemporary art negotiates the relationship between the physicality of material and the immaterial presence of human memory. In the work of Adee [...]
Vasl: The Catalyst
The romantic idea of an artist has been of a loner. Detached from family, fellows, friends, contemporaries, and the world at large – with all its [...]
Celebrating 25 years of Vasl Artists’ Association
Welcome to August issue !I am pleased to share that this month's issue is dedicated to the Vasl Artists Association. For twenty-five year [...]