The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan

Arif Hasan, Salima Hashmi, Durriya Kazi, Hammad Nasar, Mohammad Hanif, Naiza H. Khan, Quddus Mirza 
29, October, 2010
Paperback, 194 pages
ISBN : 9789699535000

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the same title, held at the Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, from 29 October 2010 – 28 February 2011. The first contemporary art exhibition of its kind to take place at the Museum, it endeavours to depict the tremendous developments that have shaped Pakistani art practice over the last two decades, with particular emphasis on the transformation of the city, under the backdrop of recent social, cultural, economic and political upheavals that have taken place in the country. ' The Rising Tide looks at how languages of belonging and displacement are mobilized, anchored and sustained between layers of urban everyday life and contemporary artists' studio practices.' 

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