Washed Upon the Shore – Speaking in Tongues
2015
Canvas Gallery – Karachi
Curated by Amin Gulgee

Zeerak Ahmed crouched on the landing of a stairwell behind an iron sheet positioned like a barricade, the steps before her guarded by plates of iron studded with nails. Intoning into a microphone and playing a sampler, she created a sound piece that was in dialogue with Green Moon and Amber Moon, two suspended hemispheres of glass and copper weighing more than 200 pounds each. The work spoke of a liminal zone between heaven and hell, where sound, sculpture and performance existed in communion with one another.