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Residencies

Read and Respond – Taaza Tareen 7

Details
Category:
Residencies
Dates:
Jan 01, 2014 - Dec 31, 2014
Artists:
Faryal Ahsan, Helen Kate, Muhammad Sufyan Baig, Syed Safdar Ali & Zoya Siddiqui and Seher Naveed
Location:
Karachi

The 7th Taaza Tareen participating artists included Syed Safdar Ali, Helen Kate Marais Harris, Muhammad Sufyan Baig, Zoya Siddiqui, Faryal Ahsan and Seher Naveed (Writer in Residence) who came together in a five week residency in Karachi.

Zoya Siddiqui ‘s body of work was inspired by sea-side activates in Karachi. Brief encounters and spontaneous documentation of isolated moments near the sea were represented within a spatial and limitless loop. Siddiqui states that “The city’s intertwined relationship with the sea, the stark contrast between the chaos/mess and infinite expanse/freedom, all personally make these captured moments (mundane, cyclical, almost futile and at the edge of both spaces) point towards both Karachi and general ‘humanness’.”