Sweeping Back the Sea | New Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Sweeping Back the Sea | New Contemporary Art from Pakistan

35 Great Jones Street New York, NY 10012, USA Thursday, August 2, 2018–Saturday, September 8, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, August 2, 2018, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.


 Aicon Gallery is pleased to present Sweeping Back the Sea | New Contemporary Art from Pakistan, a group exhibition featuring the work of Zainab Abdulhussain, Maryam Arslan, Mujtaba Asif, Affan Baghpati, Emaan Mahmud, Hira Khan, Muhammad Muzammil Khan, Suleman Aqeel Khilji, Seher Naveed, Seema Nusrat, Razin Rubin, Veera Rustomji, Omer Wasim and Saira Sheikh, and Mohsin Shafi. Curated by Adeela Suleman, the exhibition looks at how a new generation of Pakistani artists continues to address the ongoing sociopolitical conflicts facing the nation, while having moved almost completely beyond the neo-miniaturist visual modes of the past two decades.