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.
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