Exhibition: 5 artists get ‘amnesia’, tackle the loss of cultural memory
Remnants of an overlooked Pakistani culture rejuvenated by five young artists.
KARACHI:
Somewhere between intricately decorated buses running cars off the road and the antiquated streets of Saddar glimmer the remnants of an overlooked Pakistani culture — one that has been rejuvenated by five young artists in a show curated by Aasim Akhtar at Art Chowk gallery.
The artists are National College of Arts, Rawalpindi, graduates Ayesha Kamal and Abeerah Zahid, Rabeya Jalil who is currently on a Fulbright Scholarship at Columbia University, Sana Ali from the Rhode Island School of Design and Zara Mehmood, a teacher at American University in Dubai.
“The show studies the loss of cultural memory in Pakistan today,” they said in a press statement. “By refusing to critically examine our past we are in a state of denial, or worse oblivion.”
“Whether calculated or inadvertent, this loss of memory has led to a lack of understanding of who we are as a nation.”
The show, titled ‘Amnesia: The Loss of Cultural Memory’, was launched on March 9, and the artwork will be on display every day from 11 am to 7 pm till March 22, excluding Sundays.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2011.
Somewhere between intricately decorated buses running cars off the road and the antiquated streets of Saddar glimmer the remnants of an overlooked Pakistani culture — one that has been rejuvenated by five young artists in a show curated by Aasim Akhtar at Art Chowk gallery.
The artists are National College of Arts, Rawalpindi, graduates Ayesha Kamal and Abeerah Zahid, Rabeya Jalil who is currently on a Fulbright Scholarship at Columbia University, Sana Ali from the Rhode Island School of Design and Zara Mehmood, a teacher at American University in Dubai.
“The show studies the loss of cultural memory in Pakistan today,” they said in a press statement. “By refusing to critically examine our past we are in a state of denial, or worse oblivion.”
“Whether calculated or inadvertent, this loss of memory has led to a lack of understanding of who we are as a nation.”
The show, titled ‘Amnesia: The Loss of Cultural Memory’, was launched on March 9, and the artwork will be on display every day from 11 am to 7 pm till March 22, excluding Sundays.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2011.