Staying Quiet

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Founder and director of Dubai-based gallery, GREY NOISE, Umer Butt’s lecture focused on a recent exhibition he had organized in Hong Kong: The Importance of Staying Quiet, which was an attempt to look at a section of visual vocabulary being produced through a period of shifting ideologies in Pakistani art, generally not represented in exhibitions. Umer elaborated that, although formal aspects of minimalism never took root in Pakistani art discourses, minimalist sensibilities inthe works of artists past and present reveal a potent, locally-specific genre in the context of contemporary Pakistan.