Fifth Tashkent Biennale

Founded: 1998

Pakistan Commissioner: Niilofur Farrukh
Biennale Theme: The Philosophy of the City : it’s anthropological landscape
Year: 2009
Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Fifth Tashkent Biennale

Founded: 1998

Pakistan Commissioner: Niilofur Farrukh
Biennale Theme: The Philosophy of the City: it’s anthropological landscape
Year: 2009
Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan

In this exhibition from Pakistan for the Tashkent Biennale 2009, five artists explored the theme ‘Walls’ through a layered interpretation articulated in multiple mediums. Meher, an eminent artist of Pakistan, whose oeuvre focuses on the human condition invites her visitor to walk through a maze of barriers with images that evoke man’s changing relationship with the wall. She looks at the way the wall has been perceived through history, first as a fortification, an enduring example of which is the Great Wall of China to today when technology has destroyed the invincibility of conventional walls and left man feeling more vulnerable than ever.

Yasir Hussain & Meher Afroz

Video work by Yasir

Fifth Tashkent International Biennale

The 5th Tashkent International Biennale will seek to consider Urbanism and its various anthropological, cultural and philosophical aspects that are reflected in the unusual motto of the Biennale: The philosophy of the city: its anthropological landscape ( by Akbar Khakimov). This conceptual idea is bound both with urban aspects and the actual problems of contemporary civilization. The basic plots of our life happen in the