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Karachi |
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26th February 2010 to 9th April 2010 |
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New works by Bani Abidi |
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Bani Abidi is one of the leading figures from a generation of Pakistani artists who trained during the 1990s and began exploring social contradictions through their artistic practice. Green Cardamom presents two key works by Abidi at this exhibition – Karachi Series 1 (2009), a photographic investigation into, and a lament, of the loss of Pakistan’s diverse cultural character in the face of the Islamisation of the nation’s society that began in the 1980s. This work was shown for the first time at the recent Xth Lyon Biennale curated by Hou Hanru.
The second work, Intercommunication Devices (2009) is a set of digital drawings, where Abidi uses the idea of assembling a visual archive to explore exclusionary spaces, or what Itty Abraham refers to as ‘Security aesthetics.’ Intercommunication Devices explores the meeting point or threshold where power and privilege meets the disempowered and excluded. This work follows closely on from her much acclaimed Security Barriers A-L, another example of the artist’s engagement with exclusionary architecture and spatial controls, and was also shown at the Xth Lyon Biennale.
http://www.baniabidi.com |
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Jerry Fernandez, 7:45 pm, 21 August 2008, Ramadan, Karachi - Duratrans Lightbox, 50.8 x 76.2 cms
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