Category: Reviews
Shared Traces
Traces of becoming currently on view at Canvas Gallery, brings together the work of four artists from different academic backgrounds and generati [...]
Material and Memory
The recent Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) MPhil Thesis show highlighted the distinct creative practices of two graduates, Mehr [...]
Layer, Impression, Memory
I went into "Layer | Impression | Memory" not expecting the title to actually mean anything, group shows often pick a title that sounds nice and [...]
Book Review: Karachi Cartographies
Extending the Life of an Exhibition Through PublicationWhile exhibitions exist within a limited moment in time, publications allow their idea [...]
Navigating Memories
Recently Canvas Gallery, Karachi hosted a group showcase of artists whose practice delights in emotional, expressive and texture laden narratives. Th [...]
Begi-Nama: Recovering the Unseen Through Speculation
History often survives through what it chooses to remember. The Mughal Empire (1526–1857), one of South Asia's most extensively documented dynast [...]
The Politics of Mapping Karachi
To understand Karachi, one must first learn how to read it. Not only through its roads, neighbourhoods, and coastline, but through the maps, reco [...]
Tale of Two Painters
Brothers of the Brush brings together two painters from different artistic characters whose practices nevertheless converge through a shared comm [...]
Painting the Other
Last month I visited a fisherman community in Karachi. My friends were engaged with local community workshops at the Rehri Goth school and I mere [...]
Monuments from the Periphery
Akram Dost’s Retrospective through the Lens of Kadyrova's Origami DeerThe story of Kadyrova's Origami Deer at the now contentious Venice Biennale [...]