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Washed Upon the Shore
2015
Canvas Gallery – Karachi

Three massive moons seemed to control the ebb and flow of the four performances that took place on the opening of Amin’s solo exhibition Washed Upon the Shore, curated by Zarmeene Shah at Canvas Gallery. For a performance of the same name, Erum Bashir incrementally moved throughout a room whose floor was covered in coal, her white shalwar kameez eventually blackened by it. On a wall hung Third Moon, a copper globe cut in half that was covered in tarnished silver leaf. For long moments, Erum lay draped on her back upon a steel stool before climbing back down again and crawling through the field of charcoal. The work spoke of how the currents that flow within a woman’s body are linked to lunar phases. The title of the work also referenced the plight of refugees seeking haven on distant shores in a year when over a million Syrian refugees alone reached Europe by sea, according to the UNHCR. In Speaking in Tongues, 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. In Marking, Ali Junejo lay on the floor as Syed Ammad Tahir dotted his bare chest with swamp-green paint. Their eyes locked, the pair appeared to be in communion as much with each other as with Fecund Landscape, a Boschian installation of three monolith-like copper sculptures of colored glass and egg forms moored within a rectangle of broken bottles. Switching traditional gender roles, Sunil Shankar sat on a bench in the courtyard repeatedly drawing a fine-toothed comb through Joshinder Chaggar’s hair for Delousing. This juxtaposition of sculpture and performance imagined utopias and the liminal zone between heaven and hell.

Washed upon the Shore
2015
180 mins
Canvas Gallery – Karachi
Washed upon the Shore
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