Category: Reviews
Highlighting the environment- KB19, Karachi Zoo & VM Art gallery
The Second Karachi Biennale was inaugurated on the 26th of October, 2019 at Bagh Ibne Qasim. Comprising of works by over a hundred artists from across [...]
Opinion Knowledge & Truth: Knowing to transform at 12.0 Contemporary
In the last few years, many art galleries in Islamabad have been forced to either close down, hibernate, or relocate due to the enforcement of the Cap [...]
Karachi Biennale 2019: Spotlight at the Environmental via Sculptures and Archiving – Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim & IVS gallery
“…I am looking at the public and my curation is in relation to this nuanced audience. I have planned it in such a way that projects will be a part of [...]
Bringing ecology to focus, KB19 – NED and Frere Hall
In the midst of the global climatic catastrophe that is upon us, the Karachi Biennale 2019 brings together 98 artists from 16 countries includ [...]
On a Carousel of Time
When F. Scott Fitzgerald spoke about the human condition, he took its relationship with time as an incessant cycle of challenging the ‘current’ of c [...]
Book Review: Consolidating Karachi with Biennale
The remarkable success of Karachi Biennale 17, is repeated, again, in the form of its catalogue, because as the event took place two years a [...]
Banal Phrases and Lost Meaning
The act of creating contemporary art has challenged set norms of image making. Indian miniature painting, for instance, has emboldened via c [...]
The BP Portrait Award (London 2019)
Portraiture is, without any doubt, one of the most important categories in history of art. Along with landscapes, portraiture is probably th [...]
Becoming a Woman
To occupy, to salivate, to satiate, to claim,reclaim, to bequeath, to retain, maintain, to claim,maintain. Chiseled with a p [...]
Microcosm III
Microcosm III, Curated by Adeel uz Zafar at Gandhara Art Space spotlights the characteristic, unprecedented aspects, attitudes and motivator [...]