Connecting people through art 

Join us for the opening reception of In drawing, in remembrance by Shahana Rajani, at Para-Site, Hong Kong on October 11th from 2pm to 6pm, with a conversation between Shahana Rajani and Han Nefkens, moderated by curator Jessie Kwok, from 3pm to 4pm.

Rajani's first presentation in Hong Kong, In drawing, in remembrance centres on two video works that follow communities in coastal Pakistan who employ various drawing practices to confront displacement and infrastructural violence. 
Four Acts of Recovery (2025) is a meditative documentary that depicts how a fisher family uprooted from the Indus River Delta attempts to recover their ties to their disappearing homeland. 
Exhibited for the first time, Lines That World a River (2025) is a video essay that engages with activists and elders to enact a critique of the political and capitalist forces that are damaging the river ecologies of Karachi.

Four Acts of Recovery is the result of Rajani winning the Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023, in collaboration with in collaboration with Prameya Art Foundation, Delhi, India; Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE; Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), Belgium and Para Site (Hong Kong).

Alongside the two artworks, the exhibition also adopts images, sound, and objects from the region to embody the processes of retracing and recovery explored by Rajani in her works. The exhibition thus encourages visitors to 
embark on a journey of remembrance, and further reflect on the common vulnerability and endurance across communities and geographies. 

In drawing, in remembrance is curated by Jessie Kwok, in collaboration with Yuanyu Li.

Shahana Rajani is an artist exploring the visualities, landscapes and infrastructures of development, militarisation and ecological resistance in Pakistan. 
Community- based and collaborative approaches to research are central to her practice. Working across moving image, installation and printed matter, she engages with dissident histories, lineages and practices of representation and relation. She is a co-founder of Karachi LaJamia (with Zahra Malkani) which is an experimental project devoted to seeking and sharing eco-pedagogies that emerge from struggles around land and water in the city. She is currently based in Toronto, Canada.