AYESSHA QURAISHI
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2017

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​Karachi Biennale | KB17


​NJV School

Sky Frames
I started photographing hoardings in 2009. The scale of the metal grid and how it framed the sky fascinated me. I felt these empty frames mirrored the perspectives of individual lives that see a slice of the picture, not the entire panorama. Through the frames, I would often watch the grey Karachi sky change colour. Occasionally, I would spot kites glide through them, never knowing on which side of the structure the birds were until they became larger or smaller. Some disappeared. Soon, the breathing space that allowed reverie was occupied and the sky in my eye shrunk.
 
Due to the absence of a local government system, there was no regulator to oversee the mushrooming of billboards in the city. By 2015 Karachi had almost turned into a giant advertisement with every street littered with huge hoardings, many on structures so flawed they led to repeated loss of lives. On May 5th 2016 The Supreme Court maintained that there was no law that permits installing outdoor advertising on billboards, hoardings and signboards on public property and ordered the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, the Defence Housing Authority and all the cantonment boards to remove hoardings across the city by June 30th 2016. They were taken down but left by the roadsides and empty plots. A year later, some still lie there.

​Ayessha Quraishi . 2017
Sky Frames . Karachi Biennale 2017 . Hoarding 1. Main Clifton Road, Karachi by Ayessha Quraishi
Hoarding 1. Main Clifton Road, Karachi
Sky Frames . Karachi Biennale 2017 . Hoarding 2 . Main Clifton Road, Karachi by Ayessha Quraishi
Hoarding 2. Main Clifton Road, Karachi
Sky Frames . Karachi Biennale 2017 . Hoarding 3 . Main Clifton Road, Karachi by Ayessha Quraishi
Hoarding 3. Main Clifton Road, Karachi
Ayessha Quraishi . Int. Istanbul Biennale 2019 . Int. Istanbul Bienali
Hoarding 4. Main Clifton Road, Karachi
Ayessha Quraishi . Int. Istanbul Biennale 2019 . Int. Istanbul Bienali
Hoarding 5. Main Clifton Road, Karachi
Ayessha Quraishi . Int. Istanbul Biennale 2019 . Int. Istanbul Bienali
Hoarding 6. Main Clifton Road, Karachi
Double channel video .  41sec loop
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​Sound design .
 Faizan Riedinger .
Video editing . Maheen Zia .
Photographic prints
Karachi Biennale 2017 . ​Photographic print by Ayessha Quraishi
2017 . 1 Photographic print on panaflex, 152 x 244 cm
​[private collection]
Karachi Biennale 2017 . Photographic print by Ayessha Quraishi
2017 . 2 Photographic print on panaflex, 152 x 244 cm
​[private collection]
Karachi Biennale 2017 . Photographic print by Ayessha Quraishi
2017 . 3 Photographic print on panaflex, 152 x 244 cm
​[private collection]

Site-specific installation
Karachi Biennale 2017 . Installation by Ayessha Quraishi
Installation . Panaflex . 12ft x 9ft
Karachi Biennale 2017 . Installation Detail . Panaflex . 12ft x 9ft by Ayessha Quraishi
Karachi Biennale 2017 . Installation by Ayessha Quraishi
Karachi Biennale 2017 . Installation by Ayessha Quraishi
Details 1,2 and 3
Karachi Biennale 2017
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http://www.kbcuratorial.com/media/watch/new-batch/Ayessha-Qureshi---Sky-Frames-1.m4v
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Karachi Biennale Review 
​tribune.com.pk/story/1548196/1-connecting-art-city-look-society-artists-lens/
Ayessha Quraishi features in Karachi Biennale Catalog by Ayessha Quraishi
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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • 1985 - 2000
  • 2001 - 2010
  • 2010 - 2020
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • 2020 | Mid-Career Retrospective
    • 2020 | IPAF . Karachi Ki Khoj
    • 2019 | Int. Istanbul Biennale
    • 2019 | Karachi Biennale | KB19
    • 2018 | All that is, is held
    • 2017 | Karachi Biennale | KB17
    • 2017 | Recorded Time
    • 2016 | Open presence
    • 2013 | intimacy
    • 2012 | Letters from an ...
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