(b. 1994, Pakistan) Jawad Hussain is an inter-disciplinary artist,writer and filmmaker based in Lahore, Pakistan. The choice of medium for his work depends on the idea expressed, often times lying at an intersection between photography, video, paint, and performance. Jawad has had the opportunity to exhibit his work in several group shows and a solo show within Pakistan and internationally. Some of these shows include - CROSSCUT (1): CONSUMERISM AND ETHICS LUMS & Gurmani Center of Literature and Languages (2018). Partition and the Practice of Memory Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford, BC, Canada (2020). MANIFEST –Museum of scroll (2021). NEO WAVE: Kaleido Kontemporary (2024) A River on the Road: VASL Artist Association (2025). Hussain has also been a resident artist at Neela Asmaan Residency and a fellow at ‘Frame by Frame’ an initiative by Patakha Pictures and Shareem Obaid Chinoy Films supported by The Scottish Documentary Institute. Through his work he explores themes of identity, language, and time.
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Romantic Provocations is a roaming, shape-shifting exhibition that blurs the borders between art, science, politics, and public imagination. Part laboratory, part collective pause, it invites visitors into a living system where romance becomes method and friction becomes fuel. Across eight provocations, from algorithmic desire to intimacy by design, artists, scientists, and designers unsettle familiar narratives and open new ones. Multiple storylines unfold at once. Conversations remain porous. Ideas migrate across cities and disciplines, gathering new meaning as they travel and it all begins at WOW in Karachi. Visitors don’t simply observe; they participate in a slow, evolving negotiation of belief, desire, care, and disobedience. The result is a living archive of contradictions, gestures, and connections: a collective attempt to build worlds where love is disruptive, ambiguity is defended, and complexity is a shared inheritance
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Romantic Provocations is a roaming, shape-shifting exhibition that blurs the borders between art, science, politics, and public imagination. Part laboratory, part collective pause, it invites visitors into a living system where romance becomes method and friction becomes fuel. Across eight provocations, from algorithmic desire to intimacy by design, artists, scientists, and designers unsettle familiar narratives and open new ones. Multiple storylines unfold at once. Conversations remain porous. Ideas migrate across cities and disciplines, gathering new meaning as they travel and it all begins at WOW in Karachi. Visitors don’t simply observe; they participate in a slow, evolving negotiation of belief, desire, care, and disobedience. The result is a living archive of contradictions, gestures, and connections: a collective attempt to build worlds where love is disruptive, ambiguity is defended, and complexity is a shared inheritance
