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Durriya Kazi and folk art in PakistanThe Pakistani artist Durriya Kazi was in Milan recently as part of the event "Connecting People" curated by Marco Scotini at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA).
Riccarda Mandrini interviewed her.
In many eastern countries the pre-Islamic past is irretrievable "it is not so in Pakistan", writes Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul in Beyond Belief "where vital fragments of the past survive in the clothing, customs, ceremonies, celebrations and significantly in the concept of caste".
This simple phrase by the Indian writer seems to capture the essence of the work of Pakistani artist Durriya Kazi. The work of Kazi deals with the roots of popular culture and explores the evolution of the real and unreal world of a young country with very old roots.
However, Durriya Kazi the artist, in the making of the work increasingly holds herself back, to leave space to artisans, students and people becoming as such an exceptional organiser of various narrations. In a complex practice that sees her in the role of professor - she teaches at the Visual Studies Department at the University of Karachi - and artist, Kazi investigates the different forms of popular representation in her country - amongst these the widespread 'Tracks Art' - to give us a completely unveiled notion of Pakistan.
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