LAHORE: An exhibition of artworks, titled Interrupted Reveries, collateral to the NCA Triennale 2025 is attracting a good number of art fanciers on Temple Road.

The artists who have put on display their works are Maryam Jahan Zaib Baig, Warda Naeem Bukhari, Hamza Bin Faisal, Kainat Ghazanfar, Nisha Hassan, Rabbiya Illyas, Nabiha Khan, Maheen Niazi,Bareera Sajid and Rafaay Talpur.

The exhibition has been curated by Fatima Shah. In curatorial note, she says dreams are a state of deeper consciousness or wish fulfillments, while daydreams manifest into ubiquitous subjects of creation.

“Artistic creation depicts what may not be self-evident but images and objects come to life as the embodiment of sentiments, clarity of thought, curiosity and adaptability, while remaining grounded. Any interruption in the creative process is a sudden jolt into the mundane of here and now. And the thought process interrupted – is an opportunity lost.”

Ms Shah called technology and media today were an interruption to ways of thinking and creation and that the algorithm-fuelled modern life had become a medium in itself.

About her work, Maryam Jahan Zaib Baig said her work offered a closer look at heritage sites in Pakistan and markings made there by visitors while exploring the idea that the individual was both perpetrator and inheritor of an ongoing dialogue with the glorious past.

Warda Naeem Bukahri said her Phulkari series celebrated the intellectual prowess of women who mastered abstraction while counting threads from the reverse of hand-woven khaddar without drawing.

About her work, Kainat Ghazanfar said it focused the magnificence of water bodies and marvel at the short-lived spectacle created through movement. “Just as waves seem timed and have a calming effect; water flurries due to varying pressure convey another level of beauty, yet both are short-lived. I attempt to capture these delightful yet ever-changing phenomena as a reminder of their delicacy and impermanence.”

Hamza Bin Faisal depicted architecture of disused domestic spaces, weathered doors, windows, and walls holding the silent weight of time. “Through layered compositions, I document the quiet poetics of home — places devoid of life, yet resonant with stories. These become repositories of human experiences, embodying fragility and impermanence, where marks of lived histories intertwine carries a sense of wistfulness, reflecting the delicate balance between nostalgia and erosion”.

Nisha Hasan looked at ‘abandonment’ (of spaces, humans, animals, plants, and objects) as an immediate action and ruination (from neglect, desertion, decay, and disease) as a process.

Rabbiya Ilays crafted visuals that probe and provoke the complexities of sensuality and desire, drawing on traditional ainakari from heritage monuments of Central and South Asia.

The art show will conclude on Dec 7.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2025