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Residencies

Diversity | Adversity – Taaza Tareen 11

Details
Category:
Residencies
Dates:
Mar 12, 2019 - Apr 25, 2019
Artists:
Bushra Khalid, Hamid Ali Hanbhi, Jahanzeb Haroon & Noormah Jamal
Location:
Karachi

Taaza Tareen Residencies have supported recent graduates from Pakistani art institutes at formative stages of their professions. Marking 11 cycles of successful Taaza Tareen Residencies, the 2019 Taaza Tareen artists in residence; Bushra Khalid, Noormah Jamal, Jahanzeb Haroon, Hamid Ali Hanbhi and Natasha Japanwala (Writer in Residence) from Sialkot, Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi respond to the theme Diversity-Adversity. The city of Karachi, a giant megapolis of 20 million people, is a microcosm of the country itself – in its diversity and conflicts, its trials and its joys. The exhibition reflects the resident artists’ responses to the dialectics of everyday urbanism. During the residency program, the artists and the writers are given the opportunity to develop work through research and investigation.

 

Supported By:

 

KKAF Foundation, Canvas Gallery, Full Circle Gallery, Karachi Parsi Institute, Aliya Akbar, Shamain Akbar, Fatima Munir & Adnan Amjad, Sultan Allana