Category: Reviews
Between Metal and Thread
When I walked into Iram Zia Raja’s exhibition, the first thing I noticed was how calm it felt. Not empty, not minimal but just unhurried. Instead [...]
Archiving the Living: Time and Testimony in Tree as Archive
The IVS MPhil graduate, Fizza Saleem’s show unfolded with a variety of drawings, sketches, field notes, textures of bark and leaves and carefully [...]
The Talking Sculptures at IVS
The sculpture section of Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture’s Fine Arts Class of 2025 presents a thoughtful and grounded body of work sh [...]
Reimaging Fashion: IVS Fashion Design Showcase 2025
The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Fashion Design Class of 2025 showcased their thesis projects, a year-long culmination of garments [...]
Stitching the Contemporary: IVS Textile Design Showcase 2025
The Graduating Class of 2025 in Textile Design showcased mixed-media and innovative work in their thesis projects. From material-specific install [...]
The Body, DNA and Objectivity
Science has a way of reducing feelings to chemicals. Happiness becomes oxytocin. Love is dopamine. Fear is cortisol and adrenaline. The grandness [...]
Learning to Look Slowly
Seeing Colin David's drawings at O Art Space, which were taken from Ms. Ruksana David's collection, was more akin to entering an extended moment [...]
Reworking Kasb-e-Kamal Kun: The NCA Triennale 2025
Towards the end of fall, on a crisp afternoon of October 31st, the National College of Arts, Pakistan’s oldest art institution, opened itself to [...]
Of Multidimensional Times and Spaces: Meher Afroz’s First Retrospective
You can’t know an artist’s practice without knowing the contexts within which the works have been conceptualized. Meher Afroz’s practice is, if p [...]
Longed, Passed and Long Gone- Unfolding Identities at Art Citi
Unfolding Identities is a show presenting practices related to the consideration of the domestic interior, further expanding thoughts in the scop [...]