{"id":68636,"date":"2026-04-20T19:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=68636"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:09:49","slug":"the-importance-of-staying-quiet-fahd-burki-ii","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-importance-of-staying-quiet-fahd-burki-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of staying quiet: Fahd Burki II.a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">In 2014, an exhibition was held in Hong Kong under the title <i>The<\/i><i> <\/i><i>importance<\/i><i> <\/i><i>of<\/i><i> <\/i><i>staying<\/i><i> <\/i><i>quiet<\/i><i>; <\/i><i>c<\/i><i>onceived by Saira Ansari and Umer Butt, <\/i><i>it <\/i>was an attempt to find a minimal vocabulary within Pakistani art. A decade later, <i>The importance of staying quiet <\/i>returns as a year-long dialogic exchange between Butt and Ansari as a series of presentations shaped through discursive encounters. This time, the <span lang=\"en-GB\">programme<\/span> will examine the development of practices that have deliberately engaged minimal or abstract strategies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><i>Fahd Burki II.a<\/i>, the fourth exhibition in <i>The importance of staying quiet<\/i>, extended the dialogue initiated through painting in <i>Fahd<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Burki<\/i><i> <\/i><i>I <\/i><i>via<\/i> works on paper, canvas, and wood, pulling through the two-dimensional language in shift towards 3D. The works on display here turn toward contour, elevation, and depressions, explored through both actual and implied relief; \u201cfrom the surface outward, the edges crawl, fold around the frame, and consolidate into a single wooden form that anchors the centre of the presentation. The remaining tonally minimal, monochromatic works hold the space in a light yet concentrated tension \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">To 9 May. The final presentation in the series, <i>Fahd<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Burki<\/i><i> <\/i><i>II.b<\/i> will move fully into the three-dimensional; it opens on 16 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In 2014, an exhibition was held in Hong Kong under the title The importance of staying quiet; conceived by Saira Ansari and Umer Butt, it was an attempt to find a minimal vocabulary within Pakistani art. A decade later, The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-importance-of-staying-quiet-fahd-burki-ii\/\" title=\"The importance of staying quiet: Fahd Burki II.a\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96,104],"class_list":["post-68636","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","tribe_events_cat-photography","cat_art","cat_exhibition","cat_photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68636"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=68636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}