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WORK IT OUT PLATFORM 2021 – A Hybrid Platform inhabiting the Digital and Analogue Space


The celebratory shouts of freedom from colonial rule were drowned out by the cries of millions frantically making their way through the corpse-littered landscape of India and Pakistan. After more than 100 years of the British East India Company rule and an additional 90 years of the British Raj, the Indian subcontinent had finally achieved Independence. What should have been a moment of crowning triumph after years of anti-colonial struggle was indelibly marred by unimaginable violence and bloodshed. How could neighbouring communities, accustomed to centuries of relative peace have suddenly turned so violently upon one another?


Mail Art 2020/2021


I was introduced to Jennifer Rae Forsyth, an artist on the other side of the world and we began our Mail Art collaborative on 17th March 2020. During this international pandemic our post card sized images, handwritten texts and letters took center stage especially in an era of instant messaging and FaceTime on the go. In the experimental artistic simmer of the late 1950s, the everyday creativity of letter-writing gave rise to a veritable movement: that of “mail art”, an anti-establishment of serial imaginative expression whose inclusive nature has kept it alive into the Digital Age. This rich, inspiring, tactile experience and exchange combined has given prominence to Mail Art or Postal Art/Correspondence Art.


Borders, Borderlands and Crossings 2021


Internal Landscapes – On the Wall/In the Mind – Full Circle Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan – July 2021


My Body My Choice / میرا جسم میری مرضی – Site Specific Installation – Peepal & Banyan – May 2021


SITE VISIT: Postcards from Paris / carte de visite à Paris – L’AiR Arts Exhibition Project – Online from 27 Oct 2020


Pakistan at 100-World Bank Islamabad, Pakistan-August 2019


Printmaking and Drawing


Waiting room

Collaborative Duo Show (Anjum Alix Noon and Shireen Ikramullah Khan) – “#12 Faces 12 Spaces” – Full Circle Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan – February 2017


Alter ego

Collaborative Duo Show (Anjum Alix Noon and Shireen Ikramullah Khan) – Hazy Opposition / Silent Resilience – Satrang Gallery Islamabad, Pakistan – Dec 2016 – Jan 2017


A Page from my Diary I

Hybrid Theory – Full Circle Gallery, Karachi – 2015


Tangled Untangled

Rediscovering Female Narratives – PNCA (National Art Gallery) Islamabad, March 2015


Untitled - 2014

Between The Lines – Comsats Art Gallery – Feb 2015 – March 2015


The Big Bang

The Unknown Can’t be Avoided – VM Art Gallery – November 2013


Transfigure - 2012

Spontaneous Articulations – Art Chowk Gallery Karachi – July 2012


Red i - 2012

Gallery 6 Summer Group Show – Group Exhibition at Gallery 6 – June-July 2012


A Floating Membrane II

Cascading Lines – Rohtas 2, Lahore – March – April 2012


Subconscious Analysis

Blue, Orange and in Between – Alhamrah Art Gallery – Dec 12th 2011


A Floating Imprint I

Virtuosity – Paintings for De Drawing Studio – 2011


Landscape of the sea

Perception vs Progression – Khaas Gallery, Islamabad – Feb 2011


Tempest

Group Show – PNCA (National Art Gallery) Islamabad – March 2010


Thoughts on paper

Dreams – Khaas Group Show – 2008


Spring is lit with Pink

Commission Work for the Dag Hammarskjold Building – New York – Aug-Oct 2007


Genesis I

Two-Person Exhibition at Khaas Art Gallery Islamabad – May 2007


Heart

The Psychological Manifestation of the Subconcsious – Thesis Exhibition at the National College of Arts – Dec 2006