Category: Reviews

Utopia
The tendency possessed by anything suggestively utopian is the precedent it sets; the success of which is defined by whether it offers a new reality o [...]

24.8615° N, 067.099° E and other species.
What does the viewer decide to make of art when it’s not a mounted canvas, a framed sheet of paper or a sculpture on a pedestal? Perhaps today in the [...]

Aerial Cartographies
The month of August was welcomed by Natasha Shoro and Sara Khan who exhibited in a two person show 'Aerial Cartographies' at Canvas Gallery. One thing [...]

Under The Dust
Upon entering Saud Baloch’s solo show at Sanat Gallery, a sense of stillness ensued. The stillness did not evoke a sense of calm, rather, the realizat [...]

Roots of Routes
Pedantic rows nuanced with heterogeneous capacities; a circus of a thousand stagnant bodies unswayed by the wind; the expanse of the city set a agains [...]

18.08.2016
Plans to be at the exhibition at five sharp have failed, I rush to the venue in a car with number plates from Lahore, without thinking much about it—n [...]

From Here to Beyond
The catalogue ‘Look at the City From Here’ is not just a publication connected to three exhibitions held at the Gandhara Art, but holds significance a [...]

Self Colored
“I paint my own reality” – Frida Kahlo
“Self colored”-seems like an apt name for a show that is all about the artists, their aspirations, desires, in [...]

A Line Meant
Drawing in its crisp definition is 'the art or technique of representing an object or outlining a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines.' The term [...]

Delineate
We begin at roots. Our roots define us, amidst the chaos of globalization, the severity of ‘always-on’ connections, and the carry-on of international [...]