11/08/2026
Bringing together seven distinct vantage points, this exhibition centers the body as both an evolving archive and the primary axis of human experience. By asking where the body begins, the works unsettle familiar binaries: individual and collective, self and other, human and nonhuman, somatic and cerebral. Rather than treating the body as a stable category, they propose it as a shifting threshold through which histories, relationships, and ways of knowing are continually negotiated within a deeply relational web of interdependence.
This collective inquiry began twelve years ago, when the artists came together for a self-organized residency in Murree, Pakistan. Through days of conversation, shared music, and material experimentation, working with everything from wire, collage, and ink to fruits and vegetables, they formed a practice rooted in play. Although the group later dispersed across continents, a shared preoccupation endured: an interest in the constitution of the body and the limits of its form.
From these early exchanges emerged a collective fascination with the body’s fluidity and porosity, and with the question of what can be considered a body at all. The works in this exhibition have developed gradually through each artist’s individual practice. Together, they span investigations of the female body, its visibility, vulnerability, and uneasy entanglement with the natural world. They also explore the body’s relationship to the nonhuman, whether arboreal, elemental, or extending to the seemingly insentient bodies of clouds and landscapes. Across these diverse approaches, the body emerges not as a bounded object but as a site of continual exchange, where material, ecological and social worlds meet and transform one another.
Where the Body Begins
Afshar Malik
Mohsin Shafi
Sahyr Sayed
Zara Asgher
Anushka Rustomji
Madyha Leghari
Sajid Khan
Preview
4 August, ‘26
5 p.m - 8 p.m
Open till
25 August, ‘26
11 a.m - 7 p.m
