This exhibition of sculpture, film, botanical drawings, investigations, and artefacts is the culmination of a year-long hybrid visual arts residency by the artist Sara Aslam at Gumchi Bagh in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan and at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Sara's artistic vision takes in the cycles of life and fertility, and the recurring forms we find in nature, juxtaposed with an acknowledgement of human intervention through our urban structures and our traditional, historical, cultural and spiritual engagement with exploiting and cultivating plants in the service of medicinal, culinary and holistic needs.
Curated by filmmaker Sana Bilgrami, the project is a collaboration between Koel Gallery, Karachi, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), and Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Arts and Creative Industries (ENU SACI) and is supported by British Council Pakistan.
