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Numaish Karachi, a public art installation on the grounds of Frere Hall runs April 6-22 at a public park in the center of Karachi, Pakistan, exhibiting the photography and film by Pulitzer Center grantee Ivan Sigal about the defunct Karachi Circular Railroad.
The main film of the exhibition, "KCR," is an investigation of Karachi's urban development, tracing a defunct public transport route to explore stories about the city’s growth, its urban present, its rural past and its possible futures. The film will play on a continuous loop on a screen during Numaish Karachi. After the installation will travel to three other public spaces in Karachi and end at Machhar Colony in Keamari, the main coast town of Karachi.
According to an article about the exhibition by Haneen Rafi of Dawn Newspaper, Numaish exhibition opening included installations and multiple screens to view Sigal's drone footage of Karachi Circular Railway, exploring the human landscape through a variety of platforms in multimedia.
"KCR" addresses the urban development issues that Sigal reported on for his Pulitzer Center-reported project, "The Karachi Circular Railroad," for which he explored the 30-kilometer railway bed, circumnavigating the city, documenting its present disorder. He followed the line both through the city and into the suburbs and rural communities, using it as a guide to stories about the city’s growth, its urban present, its rural past and its possible futures.
Numaish Karachi Installation
April 6—April 22
Frere Hall
Fatima Jinnah Road
Karachi
Pakistan
In addition to installations throughout Karachi, Sigal's multimedia project exhibited in April at the Build Peace Art Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus and Lightbox Navigations at Harvard Art Museums, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.