Image: Shehnaz Ismail, All my hopes (detail), 2018.

Pale Sentinels: Metaphor for Dialogues, is a group exhibition of artists from India and Pakistan, curated by Salima Hashmi. The exhibition reflects upon the faded accounts, mementos, and narratives of loss that came about as a result of the complete demographic transformation during the 1947 India-Pakistan partition. Since then, both nations have attempted to define and redefine themselves many times. Having engaged with borders and constraints in one way or another, artists from both sides of the boundary come together in this exhibition located continents away.