LAST CHANCE Hassan Sharif: The Storyteller

Curated by Murtaza Vali, this exhibition revisits Hassan Sharif’s ‘objects’, works which expand the definition of ‘craft’ beyond notions of skill, precision and medium-specific mastery and towards “an experimental, experiential and embodied practice of learning, understanding, and knowing through making”.

This exhibition emphasizes materiality, manufacture, and form through careful groupings and juxtapositions, pairing exhibited ‘objects’ with texts that present an account of their crafting and perception. Sharif famously characterised himself as a “single work artist,” unifying his diverse oeuvre under one conceptual premise. The Storyteller” will attempt to trace some of the myriad material and formal complexities that are otherwise masked by this provocation, presenting a fragmented biography and (art) history of Sharif through thee works.