We are very excited to announce the opening of our new exhibit, “Proposals for a Memorial to Partition,” curated by Murtaza Valli. Join us at the Twelve Gates Gallery on Friday, August 4th from 5:30 to 7:30P ET to explore the deeply thought-provoking artworks that reflect on the history and impact of Partition.

“Proposals for a Memorial to Partition” will be on view until October 28th.

Remnants of Another traces the contours of genealogical memory among Indo-Caribbean artists descended from indentured Indian laborers to Suriname, Trinidad, and Guyana (1838-1917) working in the Netherlands, Canada and the U.S. Juxtaposing historical and family archives, these artists visualize remembrance as a form of survival alongside the enduring inheritance of Indian indentureship. Featuring practices ranging from oil painting to film, quilting and printmaking to photography, this exhibit reimagines alternative visions of ancestral selves, kinship and diaspora.

Sites of Ruin unmoors the site of imperial violence from its fixed location in time and space. This multidisciplinary show expounds forms of queer resistance to the physical and cultural violence of occupation, war, and patriarchy. The artists create with urgency; their works demand a witness to the rituals of creation at the site of so-called ruin– the intimate and the meditative, the rageful and the joyous. Sites of Ruin shatters the static facade of the site, presenting instead ruins that breathe, transform, and resonate globally, with encroaching familiarity.

Twelve Gates Arts presents ALTER, a group exhibition curated by Sadaf Padder that explores the material culture and physical spaces in religion, ritual and state. On view August 5th-October 12th, 2022.

a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal

fragments from a collective archive organized by Aziz Sohail

with Arshia Fatima Haq, Ayesha Chaudhry, Chathuri Nissansala, Fiza Khatri, kal RITUALS, kal FICTIONS, Tehreem Mela, The Many Headed Hydra, Sa’dia Rehman, Sabeen Omar, Sophia-Layla Afsar, radio kal, Vasi Samudra Devi, Veenadari Lakshika and Vicky Shahjehan

a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal was co-initiated by Aziz Sohail and The Many Headed Hydra in 2020. kal is curated and cared for collectively by Aziz Sohail, Fiza Khatri, Sandev Handy, The Many Headed Hydra, Promona Sengupta, Zahabia Khozema, Sakina Aliakbar, Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke, Momina Masood, and the teams of District*School Without Center, Archive Books and Zubaan Books.

fragments from a collective archive is organized by Aziz Sohail.

Twelve Gates Arts is pleased to present a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal (kal) a retrospective of works produced by the eponymous trans*oceanic platform. kal traces decolonial and feminist futures and pasts that are connected through bodies of water lapping at different shorelines. kal brings together artists, writers, organizers and makers from South Asia, the South Asian diasporas and post-/migrant Europe. A queer feminist and decolonial infrastructure for transdiciplinary and collaborative art practices & alternative pedagogies, kal manifests online and in situ through Houses (spaces of togetherness, making, learning and rest) in Colombo, Karachi, and Berlin, a radio channel and a series of publications.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 1st, 5-8pm
Walkthrough, 7pm, Yasi Alipour, Maryam Ghoreishi, and Leeza Ahmady
On view from March 29th to April 23rd

Public programs:
Performative Workshop : Saturday, April 23rd, 3-5pm

Twelve Gates Arts is pleased to present The Pleasure of Futile Cycles, a solo exhibition by Yasi Alipour, curated by Maryam Ghoreishi in collaboration with the acclaimed New York platform Asia Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF). The exhibition features recent and new tactile works by Yasi Alipour made on a variety of papers merely through the artist’s act of folding and unfolding paper, or its combination with the cyanotype process.