The international program of Sabrina Amrani highlights artists and practices that echoes contemporary values and concerns linked with the Global South.

The lush nature captured in Wardha Shabbir’s (1987, Lahore, Pakistan) meticulous work is an ode to perseverance and resistance, an ecosystem in which some elements coexist, a cycle in which the end of one is part of the beginning of another. Wardha Shabbir’s visual research revolves around spaces and dimensions, while referencing marks in the physical and mental worlds. For Wardha the surrounding spaces of the paper are a continuity of her paintings. Like a multitude of worlds within others, in her paintings new “spaces” open within the paintings themselves. The artist builds these maps, not only to familiarize herself with the spaces, but also as a mean to navigate through the past and the future, as a device to return to the self.

Waqas Khan’s (Akhtarabad, Pakistán, 1982) large scale minimalist drawings resemble webs and celestial expanses. The contemplation leaving a visible evidence on paper is the crux of the work. Khan employs small dashes and minuscule dots to create large entanglements. Where when two particle-sque units are spread out and entangled, they are essentially ‘in sync’ with each other, and they’ll stay in sync no matter how far apart they are. This idea of togetherness and being seen one as a magnanimous totality is what he partly absorbs from his inclination towards literature and interest in poetry.