Items of Re-use

Canvas Gallery - 2013

Items of reuse employs found and readymade objects, it seems impossible in Karachi to hear the words gunny bags or gunny sacks without thinking of lost bodies. These textile sacks cannot be associated with their primary use in carrying rice or other dry goods alone. Instead they are continually connected to their re-use as wretched carriers of Karachi’s victims of political violence.

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