Category: In Focus
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 [...]
Art Dubai at 20: Celebrating Two Decades of Cultural Transformation
Over the past two decades, Dubai has undergone one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the region. What was once a city primarily asso [...]
The Intellectual Imperative of Cultural and Creative Cartography
To trace the identity of a people is to engage in an act of historical divination, a process that transcends the mere linear recording of civiliz [...]
Usaydh Agha and Contemporary Classism
Usaydh Agha recently participated in the four-person show called ‘The Geography of Memory’ at Canvas Gallery. He exhibited three large-sized canv [...]
Creative Cartography of the Twin Cities
The dualistic landscape of the twin cities, comprising the sterile, meticulously planned grid of Islamabad and the storied, palimpsestic sprawl o [...]
No One Stands at Ease Here: Ayaz Jokhio’s Three Chairs
The 1952 play The Chairs by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco depicts two elderly people filling a room with seats for guests who never c [...]
The Seed of the Word – Calligraphic Resilience of Balochistan
To view the calligraphers of Balochistan is to witness a profound paradox: a collection of voices as distinct as the province’s jagged terrain, y [...]
Decoding Calligraphy: Devotion, Expression, Fragmentation
In our living room there’s a pair of framed pressed peepal leaves upon which Quranic verses are beautifully inscribed. If you walk into any Pakis [...]
Slow Forms, Partial Understandings: Notes on the IVS Thesis Exhibition 2026
Every year, students present their work as the culmination of an extended period of research, experimentation, and reflection. The IVS Th [...]