Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration

Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration will feature work by six contemporary Pakistani artists: Aisha Khalid, Hasnat Mehmood, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Talha Rathore, and Saira Wasim. At the core of the exhibition is a series of collaboratively-produced paintings initiated as a creative experiment by Muhammad Imran Qureshi in 2003. He contacted the five other painters, all alumni of the miniature department at the National College of Arts in Lahore, but now living in different cities around the world, with the suggestion that each artist start two new paintings made on wasli (rag paper). Each work was then sent to another artist in the group, who applied another layer of imagery, marks, or other processes, and passed it along until all of the artists had added to each of the twelve paintings. Karkhana includes these twelve miniature paintings, and five additional paintings by each of the six artists. Although separate from the series of twelve collaborative paintings, these additional works resonate visually with them, allowing viewers to recognize the hand of each artist within the collaborations. Karkhana was curated by Jessica Hough, Hammad Nasar, and Anna Sloan. The exhibition will travel to the Asia Society in New York in early 2007

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Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration

mit Aisha Khalid, Hasnat Mehmood, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Talha Rathore, Saira Wasim