A Vigil: Artist Led Tour and Talk

Through different objects Haq and Tanveer resonate with a moment in time marked by urgency, a period of instability foreboding an impending paradigm shift. The work evokes a vigil positioned between ruin and un-ruin. A constellation of fragmented narratives moving between mourning and remembrance, mirroring cyclical incantations embodying decay and regeneration.

Witness the work through a ceremonial gathering followed by a conversation with curator Priyanka Mehra around Haq's and Tanveer's transcendental practice.

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Bio
Born in 1983, Karachi Pakistan, Iqra Tanveer lives and works between Amsterdam and Lahore. In her works she creates moments of material engagements that transition between material and ephemeral, living and memorial. Channeling through questions of materiality, her works are subtle inquiries into the constructions of collective memory and remembrance. Working with photo, video, objects/ matter/ non-matter, her installations appear as simple juxtapositions, creating back and forth movement in the time spectrum.

Tanveer has participated in several group and solo exhibitions that include; All that is in between, 2nd edition of Islamic arts biennale, Jeddah Saudi Arabia, 2025 | Of Mountains and seas, 3rd edition of Lahore Bienale, Lahore Pakistan, 2024 | A field guide to getting lost, Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard Netherlands | 2023 ‘ Concieving Space’, Colombo Art Bienale, Sri Lanka in 2016 and Whorled explorations, Kochi Muziris Bienale, Kochin India, 2014 and a solo exhibition at Moscow Museum of Modern Art titled ‘Between Earth and Sky’ Moscow Russia 2013.

Born in 1983 in Lahore, Pakistan, Ehsan Ul Haq lives and works between Amsterdam and Lahore. He works with sculptural forms that question their own inherent content, making, and objecthood. Stripping away their histories, their functionality, and context, he engages the viewer with a new guidebook of perceptions for existing objects/meanings.

Haq has shown his works in various venues and institutions in form of group and solo presentations; A field guide to getting lost at Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard Netherlands | “All the is in between” 2nd Islamic art Biennale Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 3rd edition of Lahore Bienale , Lahore, Pakistan, 2024 | “Survival kit” at Latvian center for contemporary art Riga Latvia. 2016 | “An Age of Our Own Making- On Another Nature and Ecology” Images festival Holbaek, Denmark, 2016 | “No Real Body”: 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg Russia.

Priyanka Mehra is a curator whose practice is rooted in site-specificity, public art, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her work explores the intersections of contemporary art, architecture, urbanism and institutional practice, examining how art shapes public life and our relationship with place.

She has contributed to projects including in India, the UAE, and KSA. Originally trained in design, Mehra approaches curatorial practice through collaboration, research, and spatial thinking, building platforms that are critically engaged, locally grounded, and internationally connected. She is currently the Deputy Director at Public Arts Trust of India.