Where Futures Gather brings together five young artists whose practices lean toward subtle gestures, measured rhythms, and the quiet power of persistence. These works do not seek to conclude, but to unfold layer by layer, mark by mark, through materials that carry both fragility and resilience.
This is not an exhibition of answers. It is one of suspension. The works hold meaning in pauses, in textures that resist immediate legibility, in repetitions that are as much about endurance as they are about form. They invite us to dwell with what lies beneath the surface: the overlooked, the residual, the in between. Each artist approaches making as a form of listening to symbols, to histories, to the body itself. Their practices resist neat framing instead, they converge through a shared attention to the provisional and the delicate, to the small insistences that shape experience. As curator, I approach Where Futures Gather as an invitation to linger. To see not only what is present, but also what hovers at the edge of perception. In a time driven by speed and spectacle, these works remind us of the value of hesitation, of careful looking, of staying with possibility. And perhaps, in that space of possibility, lies the most hopeful gesture of all: the beginning of futures yet to be imagined.
– Muhammad Zeeshan
