Fazal Rizvi

This publication is part of a larger project, also called Kedgeree that examines the current usage of the English language in the subcontinent and its colonial roots. The project revolves around the artist’s feelings of embarrassment at his own father’s inability to speak English fluently. He hopes to examine and challenge the enduring and indelible connection of the English language to issues of class and education in the subcontinent. In the publication, the artist utilises the dictionary format to list a series of carefully selected words and their meanings to iterate ideas of shame, guilt and a fractured sense of self.

about the author:

Fazal Rizvi (b. 1987), lives and works in Karachi. He holds a BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore (2010). His recent solo show The Fleet was at the Gandhara Art Space, Karachi in 2018. Rizvi has been a part of group shows at the Karachi Biennale in 2017 and the New Art Gallery Walsall in 2016. He was selected for the Arcus Project Residency, Japan in 2011. He was also awarded the Murree Museum artists’ residency in 2017, the Vasl International Artist Residency in 2015 and Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust and British Council Residency at Gasworks, London in 2014.

Fazal Rizvi

In The Dead Tigers of British India, Rizvi brings together images of tiger hunts and other archival material featuring images of tigers and lions from the colonial period in India. The image of hunting, which became a metaphor for colonial rule, is critiqued by Rizvi as a symbol that celebrates the subjugation of one at the hands of another. The publication was produced alongside an installation of seven 3D printed tiger paws modeled after the legs of Tipu Sultan’s throne.

about the author:

Fazal Rizvi (b. 1987), lives and works in Karachi. He holds a BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore (2010). His recent solo show The Fleet was at the Gandhara Art Space, Karachi in 2018. Rizvi has been a part of group shows at the Karachi Biennale in 2017 and the New Art Gallery Walsall in 2016. He was selected for the Arcus Project Residency, Japan in 2011. He was also awarded the Murree Museum artists’ residency in 2017, the Vasl International Artist Residency in 2015 and Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust and British Council Residency at Gasworks, London in 2014.

Fazal Rizvi

Fluid Frontiers is the first in a series of exhibitions that took place at the fictitious ‘Museum of Speculated Objects’ (Rizvi’s long-term project). The exhibition presents a collection of tangible (and intangible) objects that were found floating and/or submerged within the Arabian Sea. Through research and imagination, narratives and moments have been woven around each of these found objects. This ‘exhibition guide’ helps traverse the fluid yet distinctly marked (and tense) maritime borders between India and Pakistan.

about the author:

Fazal Rizvi (b. 1987), lives and works in Karachi. He holds a BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore (2010). His recent solo show The Fleet was at the Gandhara Art Space, Karachi in 2018. Rizvi has been a part of group shows at the Karachi Biennale in 2017 and the New Art Gallery Walsall in 2016. He was selected for the Arcus Project Residency, Japan in 2011. He was also awarded the Murree Museum artists’ residency in 2017, the Vasl International Artist Residency in 2015 and Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust and British Council Residency at Gasworks, London in 2014.

Fazal Rizvi

During the summer of 2017, The Museum of Speculated Objects, was invited by the Murree Museum Artist Residency, to critically examine the running of Muree Water Works. Through objects, instances, anecdotes and field research, the ‘exhibition’ hopes to make visible, the failures, inadequacies and the inefficiencies of the water supply system in Muree upon which the local population is dependent.

about the author:

Fazal Rizvi (b. 1987), lives and works in Karachi. He holds a BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore (2010). His recent solo show The Fleet was at the Gandhara Art Space, Karachi in 2018. Rizvi has been a part of group shows at the Karachi Biennale in 2017 and the New Art Gallery Walsall in 2016. He was selected for the Arcus Project Residency, Japan in 2011. He was also awarded the Murree Museum artists’ residency in 2017, the Vasl International Artist Residency in 2015 and Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust and British Council Residency at Gasworks, London in 2014.

Fazal Rizvi

The publication Within a vessel, Upon a vessel was commissioned by The New Art Gallery Walsall, in 2016 along with a video projection. This marked the beginning of what is Rizvi’s ongoing engagement with maritime borders. This particular publication meditates on and traverses through multiple iterations of the word vessel. The boat, as an object and the body as a vessel floating (and breathing) through space and time.

about the author:

Fazal Rizvi (b. 1987), lives and works in Karachi. He holds a BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore (2010). His recent solo show The Fleet was at the Gandhara Art Space, Karachi in 2018. Rizvi has been a part of group shows at the Karachi Biennale in 2017 and the New Art Gallery Walsall in 2016. He was selected for the Arcus Project Residency, Japan in 2011. He was also awarded the Murree Museum artists’ residency in 2017, the Vasl International Artist Residency in 2015 and Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust and British Council Residency at Gasworks, London in 2014.