Full Circle (video still) by Anusha Khalid If You Have Tears’ is an unusually meditative exhibition. The works in the recent curatorial project by senior art critic Quddus Mirza at Canvas Gallery in Karachi radiate a mellow pace and astonish our expectations of contemporary art that represents water.
At first, viewers may enter the gallery expecting vivid imagery or sculptures that attempt to elementarily engulf the theme of the show. However, there is ample creative depiction of the life-building element woven into the exhibition as unexpected stories explored in various media, including video, installations, drawings, photographs and water itself in the form of ice.