Future Debris
Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery
Lahore, 2018 The Monster I Call Home, Oil and Ink on Cotton Paper; 8 x 11.5”Pre-Monster Days, Oil and Ink on Cotton Paper, 8 x 11.5”Photoetching on Zinc Plate (original print without colour)
8 x 11.5”
Curated by Saba Khan for Murree Museum Artist Residency
Zahoor-ul-ikhlaq Gallery
at National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
The history of a neighborhood is not so different from the larger stories of development emanating from entire countries and even across a continent.
At first, there was land and the avalanche of resources. Then came man and his miscalculated errors. After that, there was no looking back; from the sand emerged towers, from the grass grew cement and the sky was swallowed by a grey cloud. Some of these photographs and etchings are depictions of Bath Island in Karachi as it is being re-written this very moment and its future decided by the ever changing dynamics of scale, materials and hunger. It is strange indeed, how the places we call home become increasingly unrecognizable day by day.