The Wound Is The Place Where Light Enters…

Solo Show by Ariba Akhlaque | Curated by Prima Kurien | In partnership with Triveni Kala Sangam The wound is the place, where light enters… “I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: Pain and sorrow. He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” -Rumi In between remembrance and loss, a consciousness exists shaped by cultural background, personal experience & social influence – Ariba’s work stems from here. This body of work celebrates memories of the bygone as well as imagined archives created by personal objects – a dried rose, an old postcard, or a broken tile -that simultaneously trace, grief, loss, and celebration- the language of nostalgia. Ariba Akhlaque (1994), is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, majoring in printmaking and new media art. She has exhibited widely- at Haam Gallery in Lahore, Chronos exhibition- in Brazil, Art Incept grant exhibition- in New Delhi, amongst others.

The wound is the place, where light enters…

He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?

He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

In between remembrance and loss, a consciousness exists shaped by cultural background, personal

experience & social influence – Ariba’s work stems from here.

This body of work celebrates memories of the bygone as well as imagined archives created by

personal objects – a dried rose, an old postcard, or a broken tile -that simultaneously trace, grief, loss,

and celebration- the language of nostalgia.

Ariba Akhlaque (1994), is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated from

the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, majoring in printmaking and new media art.

She has exhibited widely- at Haam Gallery in Lahore, Chronos exhibition- in Brazil, Art Incept grant

exhibition- in New Delhi, amongst others.