Category: In Focus
The best of the biennale
What must be relished above all else when one views the artworks on display at any iteration of the Karachi Biennale is the mingling of the establish [...]
A sea of images
Rashid Rana’s work at the Karachi Biennale 2019 (KB19) was undeniably one of the highlights of the event. The artist had re-interpreted Caspar David [...]
Sheherezade Alam
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 ci [...]
Zenana Mardana
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 [...]
Transformative art for the proletariat
Rameesha Azeem’s interdisciplinary and site-specific curatorial project called “The Factory” invited 22 artists to explore and create installations i [...]
Imran Mir: Alchemist of Line
From the archives
There is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying art adherent exclusively to particular mediums, schools, genres or techniques, c [...]
UBERMENSCH – A conversation between Rashid Rana and Rohma Khan.
“Superman” as we know today follows the conceptual premise conceived by Friedrich Nietzsche in his philosophical centerpiece, Thus Spake Zarathustra, [...]
Conversations about Public Art: An homage to complex form
A few weeks ago I was asked to write about public art, possibly because of my affiliation with the Tentative Collective and our intermittent art exper [...]
Encounters with the Miniature in Pakistan: A Train of Thought
It was 2009 when I was first introduced to the Neo-Miniature in Pakistan. I was a first year student at Brandeis University, and enrolled in Introduct [...]
Upon healing: Collaboration with Qinza Najm
"I was so traumatized last year. You have no idea." Qinza Najm said as we were sitting outdoors at a busy restaurant in Miami Beach with our [...]