Category: Reviews
Noorjehan Bilgrami: Under the Molsri Tree
Noorjehan’s works are the music scores of a memory from afar as much as those of an instant in life, whose melodic, rhythmic and poetic aspects are pl [...]
Book Review | The Eye Still Seeks: Pakistani Contemporary Art
I am terribly excited as I write this review. I feel like I was picked out for a special mission, I feel like a large, red, important-looking circle w [...]
The ‘Pix’torial Survey of Pakistan
“Consequently while making the preliminary foray in to the issue some of the broader predicaments that came to mind were: what constitutes the physica [...]
Questionable Communication
The lifestyles to which we are accustomed do not prepare us for the natural disintegration and changes of communication which time brings. Whether it [...]
One for the Birds
Muhammad Zeeshan’s solo exhibition ‘One for the Birds’ at Gandhara Art Space in Karachi heralded both a continuation and rupture from the previous pra [...]
Looking Back, Seeing Ahead
Arif Mahmood is a star. His work sets the stage ablaze, from breathtaking imagery of models along the runway to piercing portraits and surreal landsca [...]
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Nisha Hasan seems to hold another world in her head. At Rohtas Gallery, recently, she offered some glimpses of it to unsuspecting visitors. These visu [...]
The Presence of Absence
The walls of the gallery at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture are painted to resemble a container’s façade. Nothing frames the exhibit. [...]
Post-Pop: East Meets West
East does not meet West, and you will not discover anything new or exciting at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The title of the exhibition misleads: it [...]