Of True Reigns & Yellow Pages 2022-2023

Lujane Pagganwala is the fifth recipient of the Vasl-Khurram Kasim Art Foundation (KKAF) Research Grant, 2022. Lujane is a visual artist currently based in Karachi, Pakistan. She was also one of the resident artists for Vasl’s 14th Taaza Tareen residency, ‘And So It Happened’.

The Vasl-KKAF Research Grant of 2022 was comprised of 4 jury members, Khurram Kasim, Saira Danish Ahmed, Sameera Raja and Sophia Balagamwala.

Dusted within material, what is presented is a retrospect of innate membranes

To the comprehension of ‘what’, is a corridor from here to now

Grounded reveries simmer

Of floaters in White Waters

Of vines and vices de-seeded

Make your way

When the gauze is lifted

Of a forgotten restoration

Embraced within the flash

In a verse of two

She forfeits the call

Such is the descent

Of a ubiquitous haul

And in all the magnanimity

Of true reigns

And yellow pages

It is dusted within material

To the comprehension of what?

Is now a corridor from there to then