Fahd Burki: daydreams

Dawn Ross was Head of Collections at Art Jameel, responsible for the Art Jameel Collection and associated exhibitions, both those at the Jameel Arts Centre and loans with partner museums regionally and internationally.

Fahd Burki (b. 1981, Lahore, Pakistan) lives and works in Lahore and London. He graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2003 and received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2010. Since 2004, his works have been exhibited at various art fairs including LISTE 17, Basel, Switzerland; Artissima 18, Turin, Italy; India Art Summit, New Delhi, India and Art Dubai 2013, Dubai, UAE. Recent solo exhibitions include Grey Nose Dubai (2014) and Carré d’Art in Nîmes.

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Murtaza Vali ( lives and works in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and Brooklyn, United States) is critic, curator, and art historian. His ongoing research interests include materialist art histories, ex- centric minimalisms, ghosts and other figures of liminal sibjectivities and repressed histories, the weight of colour and contemprorary art of Indian Ocean littoral.