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Viewpoint
March 8, 2021
The Koel Gallery is hosting a group exhibition titled ‘Viewpoint’ from March 9 to March 24. The show features works by Bilal Khalid, Hamid Ali Hanbhi, Muneeb Aaqib and Sajid Khan. Call 021-35831292 for more information.
The Space in Between
The Chawkandi Art Gallery is hosting Arslan Farooqi’s solo exhibition titled ‘The Space in Between’ from March 9 to March 20. Call 021-35373582 for more information.
Bashi Bazouk
The Canvas Gallery is hosting Adeela Suleman’s solo exhibition titled ‘Bashi Bazouk’ from March 9 to March 18. Call 021-35861523 for more information.
Family Hall
The Sanat Initiative is hosting Haya Zaidi’s solo exhibition titled ‘Family Hall’ from March 9 to March 18. Call 0300-8208108 for more information.
Trudy Wiegand & Scheherzade Junejo ‘Green With Envy’.
Frequently, the phrase “the other half” has a condescending connotation; implying that a woman is not an independent individual, but part of a composite entity.
Throughout history, there have been no women military dictators, or leading figures of a religious community (popes, chief rabbis, grand muftis, ayatollahs). Power and religion have been used to dominate, exploit and subjugate women in patriarchal cultures. Over centuries, societies were built in such a way that women’s absence from literature, arts, science, politics, law, sports and business was regarded not as exclusion, but a ‘natural’ state. Linda Nochlin in her ground breaking text Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? reflects on this: “Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines – history, philosophy, sociology,