Category: In Focus
Naiza Khan represents Pakistan at the Venice Biennale 2019
With her solo exhibition Manora Field Notes, the multidisciplinary artist presents her work in the Biennale’s first-ever Pakistan Pavilion.
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The Ghosts of Past and Future: Pakistan in Venice
Pakistan Pavilion marked its debut at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale with Manora: Field Notes, a solo presentation by multi-disciplinarian ar [...]
THE SHAPE OF CLAY
When one is asked to write about Ceramics, it implies that one writes about a material and not necessarily about sculpture or contemporary a [...]
Looking Back, Moving Forward: connections of art and craft
This essay is excerpted from a longer essay on the relationship of art and craft, written ten years ago, when international markets saw a directional [...]
“The Sense of an Ending”: The Art of the Moving Image
Why is the moving image so suited to the expression of life? Life is movement, one might answer, and movement can most truthfully be captured in a [...]
From Stills to Motion, from Canvas to Body: The Art of Moving Images
Moving images are everywhere; we are bombarded with a plethora of images, digital advertisements, Gifs, videos and sounds through digital so [...]
The quest for a context: Material Culture & Object
As artists, historians, finding connections, creating contexts has always had a kind of omnipresence. Major artists today are interested [...]
Craft & Beyond
Craft & Beyond Venturing into the domain of ‘craft’ is a complex undertaking. Some of us look at it with a fondness, clinging onto a [...]
From LB01 to LB02: on the continuum of an engaged artistic ethos
In November 2018, the Lahore Biennale Foundation named Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE as curator for the second [...]
Art and the City
A city is not a museum. It is unlike any object of desire that can be preserved, or a collection of sorts on display in a cabinet of curiosity. [...]