All That Perishes on the Edge of Land

Hira Nabi’s docu-fictional work, ‘All that Perishes on the Edge of Land’ (2018) was introduced through Vasl’s residency program. Nabi explored Gadani’s shipwrecked yard as a site of fractured anecdotes and conflicting truths. Her research and projects derive from an ongoing preoccupation regarding labour, networks of capital movements, vulnerabilities that are exposed to humans and attention that is directed towards the environment as a primary site of investigation. This work is particular as it revisits assorted contrasting narratives regarding accidents, the ownership of ships and ways of existing. Her work contemplates surrealist surroundings linked to quotidian workplace occurrences that remain universally concerned.