ISLAMABAD, FEB 19 (DNA) -In the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Pakistan will present its inaugural pavilion, a solo project by the multi-disciplinary artist Naiza Khan.
Khan (born 1968, Pakistan) lives and works between Karachi, Pakistan, and London, UK.
Over the last ten years, Khan has looked at the transformations of sites such as the expandingKarachi harbour and Manora Island, foregrounding the dimensions of embodiment, ecology and habitation. Her practice is built upon a detailed process of research, documentation and mapping-based investigation of the island looking at how this reshaping reflects wider changes in the Global South.
The project Manora Field Notes, curated by Zahra Khan, will immerse the viewer in life upon Manora Island according to the artist as translator and mediator. The work engages with multiple bodies of knowledge – archival material, historic myths, conversations with local communities and architectonic phenomena such as ruins and construction sites. It constitutes.DNA
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