Lala Rukh: In the Round

Artist, teacher, political activist, founder of the Women's Action Forum. Lala Rukh is a pre-eminent figure of Pakistani culture, whose three-decade artistic journey is told in a first major international exhibition at the Sharjah Art Museum. The exhibition features rarely seen works from her early years, along with original posters, publications, and interviews with her collaborators during her time advocating for gender justice and civil rights. In addition to a vast selection of archival material, Lala Rukh: In the Round brings together works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection and lesser-known series from Sigiriya, Sri Lanka and the Gadani Coast of Pakistan. Her works are poetic compositions that depict horizons, lunar movements, water mirrors, coasts and archaeological sites, capturing a nuance of rhythms through her reduced vocabulary of lines, figures and darkness and creating a seamless interweaving between creation of signs, musicality and silence.