‘Open Forms’ alludes to a way of looking that we have been negotiating since our art school years.

We are drawn to artists with a certain peculiarity, whose work seems to emerge from a self-imposed stillness, at some distance from the noise around them. It is a desire to address how they approach conceptual developments that move away from narrative, focusing instead on making and the material through which the abstract is constructed.

– Saira Ansari / Umer Butt

September 23 – December 31, 2026

This is the sixth and final exhibition of the 2025-2026 iteration of ‘The importance of staying quiet’.

Faheem Abbas, Untitled, 2025, Inkjet print on paper, 21 x 14.8cm. Edition of 3
Iqra Tanveer, The forgetting curve, 2017, Overhead projector, transparency film, dimensions variable
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