We Need to Talk
November 2016
Koel Art Gallery, Karachi
you cannot
remain
a
war
between
what you want to say (who you really are)
and
what you should say (who you pretend to be)
your mouth was not designed to eat itself
— split
Nayyirah Waheed
Combatting an internal battle of dialogue every day and dusting off ashes to carry ourselves forward is an ongoing process. Through the practise of writing letters to one another, Halima Sadia (graphic designer) and Hira Khan (sculptor) translate the common situations and events amongst each other that may have triggered a sense of being hushed. Both visual artists worked around the same theme but through their own mediums to combine the installation as one.