Category: Reviews
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 [...]
From Dot to Trace
The importance of drawing is essential and ever-present in the artistic creation process, and that's why it is rather hard to define it. In his 1 [...]
The Shape of Urdu Beyond Words
At Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, Urdu Worlds is a proposition: that language is a structure through which entire lifeworlds are imagined, inhabit [...]
Violence at a Distance
Quddus Mirza exhibited his latest collection of paintings in Karachi, with the solo showcase “New Works” opening at Canvas Gallery on April 8th. [...]
The Mystical Architecture of Calligraphy in Rashid Arshad’s Practice
Arabic calligraphy has occupied a central position in Islamic art since the emergence of Islam, shaping not only devotional practices but als [...]