Some of the artworks put up on display in the exhibition. White Star
KARACHI: Plants and leaves are, arguably, the best manifestation of nature. Apart from the aesthetic and therapeutic charm that they suffuse the world with, their greenness and/or the very process of shrivelling symbolise the life trajectory of living beings.
An exhibition titled Foliage, which was under way at the Art Chowk Gallery, takes the metaphor forward and applies it to things that may not, ostensibly, fall under the category of breathing creatures.
Jamal Ashiqain is the curator of the show. He in his curatorial note explains, “A fragile nascent shoot to a dead maple leaf displaying vivid colours, artists have used foliage in countless abstractions, and forms in a number of contexts, and here with this exhibition we are exploring the use of this very simple element in the modern visual vocabulary by artists today.”