Past
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AZAL SE ABAD TAK: A JOURNEY BETWEEN TWO ETERNITIES
13 Jan - 20 Feb 2026 ‘Walk gently, heedless traveller’ You walk into a room with empty hands The room is the world It holds everything you [didn’t know you] needed—a cypress tree, a rose bush, a pomegranate, a ladder You don’t see the ladder—but it’s there It climbs into a cave where Plato sits, letting... Read more -
BAGH-E ZANANA: WOMEN'S GARDEN
curated by Emiliano Vades 1 - 6 Mar 2024 Exile lingers as a scent in Ahmadzai’s new suite of works eponymously titled after Kabul’s public garden designated exclusively for women. Bagh-e-Zenana’s history is one of repair and return, as the once opulent garden of queens witnessed political onslaughts and damage, until it was revived in early 2000s by Nilab... Read more -
Bagh-e Babur
3 SEPTEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2022 3 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 Emilia Terracciano Paradise as a Garden ‘[…] The avenue garden in which water is short and for which a stream must be diverted […] the best of young trees must be planted there, lawns arranged, and borders set with sweet herbs and with flowers of beautiful colour and scent.’ Babur... Read more -
Pages from Hamid Manzil
19 - 28 Apr 2023 (Series of 17 individual works) The series titled Pages from Hamid Manzil comprises seventeen small works on manjarpat fabric. Created in 2020, during the Covid-19 lockdowns, each work is rendered in a style typical to the artist’s recent works including visual and conceptual motifs that set this particular series comfortably... Read more
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Qissah-e Kabul
9 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 The Lost Plot, The Redeemed Refrain Nancy Adajania ’ Ālam tilism-e shahr-e khamoshān hai sar bah sar Yā maiñ gharīb-e kishvar-e guft-o shunūd thā The world is an illusion, a city of ghosts from end to end; Or I am a stranger, unfamiliar with the language. [1] —Ghalib (trans. by... Read more -
Nafas
(Isolation Diaries) 5 Apr - 1 May 2021 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Uthra Rajgopal Solitude. Silence. Separated. Sinking. Drip. Splash. Drip. And this was how it went on… for days… The warm breeze brushing the impregnated cloth, left out in the rain, soaked in the colours of yesterday’s flowers and the drifting thoughts…of every emotion. The script is drenched... Read more -
An-Nisa: The Women
17 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 Arshi Ahmadzai’s ink and embroidery series An-Nisa was executed in 2019 while the artist was a resident at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery in Bangalore, India. The works are in keeping with the artist’s continued engagement with working with text and images painted and embroidered on fabric. An-Nisa series derives its title from... Read more
