https://halarsoomro.com Halar Soomro Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:01:10 +0000 https://halarsoomro.com en https://halarsoomro.com/About-Me Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:59:40 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/About-Me &nbsp; about Born and raised in Karachi (Southern Pakistan), Halar is an artist, cultural researcher, and an archivist currently based in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Moving across installation, text, video and archival material, Halar’s practice delves into the intersections of memory, displacement, and post-colonial realities of South Asia. Rooted in his family’s migration following the 1947 Partition of India, his work questions the idea of post-colonial Pakistan and what it means to have inherited a fractured homeland. His practice incorporates interdisciplinary methods, including multimedia installations, digitization of familial artifacts, field trips, oral history documentation, ethnographic research and textile.&nbsp; A graduate of the Maastricht Institute of Arts, Halar has exhibited extensively across The Netherlands and Belgium, including his ongoing project “Ghar: Frames of Recollected Memories ” (2023) , showcased at DISPLAYCED 2025 (NL) , Dutch Design Week (NL) , and Landbouwbelang (NL). His most recent work, a multimedia installation titled “ From Dhoongri to Karachi ” (2025) is an earnest exploration of his grandmother’s migration to post-Partition Karachi, having to sculpt her life from the fragments of a divided homeland, blending restored family archives, intimate interviews, and recreated memories in an effort to collectively remember inherited trauma. This video work, contirbutes to a larger and ongoing research question of his inherited fractured home - Pakistan. He is currently working on an art publication titled, “Ghar: Volume I”, comprising his field notes, diary scans, maps, and sribbles of home from his trip to Pakistan in the fall of 2023. Halar is one of the founding members of tu.la.lit, a cross-continental platform for post-colonial co-research through sonic mapping and street culture, alongside his&nbsp; ex-art academy contemporaries. ︎&nbsp; ︎ &nbsp; <img width="3712" height="5568" width_o="3712" height_o="5568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3af1fc5ecc298f6b766b02bf0ec453b8df8cde5341b598d2776c98298600a69/_DSC7161.jpg" data-mid="240549148" border="0" data-scale="83" alt="Photo by Nikita Dyatlov" data-caption="Photo by Nikita Dyatlov" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3af1fc5ecc298f6b766b02bf0ec453b8df8cde5341b598d2776c98298600a69/_DSC7161.jpg" /> ©&nbsp;HalarSoomro, 2026. All rights reserved. https://halarsoomro.com/From-Dhoongri-to-Karachi-2025 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:43:07 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/From-Dhoongri-to-Karachi-2025 Multimedia Installation Sustainability HubMaastricht, NLOctober 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; From ढूंगरी to Karachi Installed across the room like an open Suitcase,&nbsp; From Dhoongri to Karachi (2025) unfolds through hanging textile scrolls, three video screens, scattered heirlooms, and images that carry traces of migration. Printed on handmade rice paper, these images show tender gestures of my grandmother as she visits parts of Karachi where she first settled as a refugee. Excerpts from my film Nani, Karachi and I (2024) appear within the installation, weaving moving image and still image into one rhythm. Central to the work is an old suitcase, releasing two VHS tapes from 2001, my nani’s old passport, photographs and more. This project continues my ongoing research into the politics of memory, migration and national amnesia, expanding on Ghar: frames of recollected memories (2023). Through my grandmother’s story - her journey from Mumbai to Karachi after 1947, I think about “Ghar-گھر” (home) as something unstable: a shifting constellation of places, smells, textures, and half-remembered stories. In an effort to make sense of my convoluted ethnic heritage in contemporary Pakistan, I try to reassess the role of an archive, not as a fixed site of preservation, but as something fluid, fragile, activated, sometimes misremembered. The notion of “Ghar” (home) appears in multiple forms: as an actual site, a sonic memory, a lost photograph, a disappeared recipe and a VHS tape. Home becomes an unstable ground I return to through my artistic research, taking the form of this multimedia work.&nbsp; Materials: digital video (looped), three monitors, rice paper prints, stitched textiles scrolls, found suitcase, wooden crates, archival material (1951-2001). Dimensions: 6.5 × 5.8 m. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cee81b3fec08a9104fd5308690fb598b900d7c551ab043dfb98d2cea83ea8d1/DSC_0199.JPG" data-mid="240784180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cee81b3fec08a9104fd5308690fb598b900d7c551ab043dfb98d2cea83ea8d1/DSC_0199.JPG" /> <img width="5032" height="3355" width_o="5032" height_o="3355" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70836ec0224ad734b7d9bfbcbe8078f57fe0a3fda68b9b86a9c63cc61a5e245c/_DSC7076.jpg" data-mid="240550833" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70836ec0224ad734b7d9bfbcbe8078f57fe0a3fda68b9b86a9c63cc61a5e245c/_DSC7076.jpg" /> Photo by Nikita Dyatlov <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30cb3211fc1dcfa763b73994a7a30ef32158bdd4ffa85e83de1d21c7338f72c2/DSC_0201.JPG" data-mid="240784181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30cb3211fc1dcfa763b73994a7a30ef32158bdd4ffa85e83de1d21c7338f72c2/DSC_0201.JPG" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48ca3807822eb50e74aa3dd18d5ce40d4abae81a697f834c980f7d4989fdd07b/DSC_0006.JPG" data-mid="240237094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48ca3807822eb50e74aa3dd18d5ce40d4abae81a697f834c980f7d4989fdd07b/DSC_0006.JPG" /> Photos by Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/Ghar-2024 Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:41:25 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/Ghar-2024 Multimedia Installation Sectie-C&nbsp; Dutch Design Week Eindhoven (NL) October 2024hibt <img width="2514" height="2514" width_o="2514" height_o="2514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3d0929f8fc1e6d7591aeebb42ae1624e4e95c03434b80dda86c31e3f7851ec8/IMG_1986-cropped.jpeg" data-mid="222695893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3d0929f8fc1e6d7591aeebb42ae1624e4e95c03434b80dda86c31e3f7851ec8/IMG_1986-cropped.jpeg" /><img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3758500822dc6875d5c88f7df00976db24f4e94a5ab5c61509b54acaaa97f1a5/IMG_1978cr.jpeg" data-mid="222695906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3758500822dc6875d5c88f7df00976db24f4e94a5ab5c61509b54acaaa97f1a5/IMG_1978cr.jpeg" /> Photos by Esmée Loendersloot Ghar&nbsp; ·&nbsp;گھر&nbsp; · &nbsp;घर In October 2024, I was invited to be a part of the Exhibition at Sectie-C in Eindhoven. This was part of the Dutch Design Week, where I presented my project, Ghar: Frames of recollected memories.&nbsp; This included my film, “Nani, Karachi and I” along with a collection of photographic impressions of my research trip to Pakistan in fall 2023. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11177373b355002a87e43fb30a263b8e5a9f71daaa37599baee6cc210bfe00ab/IMG_1985.jpeg" data-mid="240560456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11177373b355002a87e43fb30a263b8e5a9f71daaa37599baee6cc210bfe00ab/IMG_1985.jpeg" />These photpgraphs were taken on expired film and captured Intimate family moments, conversations, and trips to parts of Karachi signficant to my grandmother’s journey to finding a home in Pakistan. Materials: digital video (looped), one monitor, Expired film photographs on 297 x 420 mm 250 GM2025 &nbsp; https://halarsoomro.com/Frames-of-Recollected-Memories-2024 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:43:14 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/Frames-of-Recollected-Memories-2024 Multimedia Installation Thesis Show Part of DISPLAYCED 2024 Supported by The Supporting Act Foundation Ghar: Frames of recollected memories My thesis project from the Maastricht Academy of Arts, took&nbsp;the form of a multimedia installation debuted at DISPLAYCED 2024,&nbsp; C.V. Landbouwbelang (NL).&nbsp; It invites the audience into the journey of recollected, restored and reformed memories of my beloved grandmother, Fareeda Khatoon. <img width="4032" height="2268" width_o="4032" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f313d5cd6122156d68d4f69bcdbdffc8db6204e9b033a12774f3fe2961b4f529/IMG-20251112-WA0016.jpg" data-mid="240571822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f313d5cd6122156d68d4f69bcdbdffc8db6204e9b033a12774f3fe2961b4f529/IMG-20251112-WA0016.jpg" /> Central to the installation is a short video work documenting my grandmother, a Bombay soul in a post 1947 Karachi as she looks back at her life and identity sculpted from the fragments of a divided homeland. The&nbsp; film is a visual chronicle of Fareeda’s life and my love for her, as the premise involves compiling collective memories through several one-on-one exercises. . <img width="3312" height="2853" width_o="3312" height_o="2853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a131c302e59e63ec500f54af732352e4c52cef068696839c5efdc83f10c07a8/IMG-20251112-WA0021.jpg" data-mid="240571829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a131c302e59e63ec500f54af732352e4c52cef068696839c5efdc83f10c07a8/IMG-20251112-WA0021.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fbfa651df4e1eb887c0ad32f70324cf27b9b97153498ff3ca0dbaf1108bf989/IMG-20251112-WA0018.jpg" data-mid="240571824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2fbfa651df4e1eb887c0ad32f70324cf27b9b97153498ff3ca0dbaf1108bf989/IMG-20251112-WA0018.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="2268" width_o="4032" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e791255377e798c2e601e303807a28e3ca4612cd4091cbd0e1d5a3a2b7ea1e4/IMG-20251112-WA0015.jpg" data-mid="240571821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e791255377e798c2e601e303807a28e3ca4612cd4091cbd0e1d5a3a2b7ea1e4/IMG-20251112-WA0015.jpg" /> The installation also consists of several archival pieces including expired passports, photographic documents, silverware, and jewelry from my family alongside excerpts of my travel, process, and thoughts from my Journal &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “گھر کی کتاب : Volume I”. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0a6de7e760476c7bc77d15aa9e95ebd5ca3a82eefe6efd511a0b778a21a7074/DSC04143.jpg" data-mid="219078751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0a6de7e760476c7bc77d15aa9e95ebd5ca3a82eefe6efd511a0b778a21a7074/DSC04143.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="2268" width_o="4032" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d38d8e2f81718f574b8878747b13953c752851e74851a742bf3775f5cd421882/IMG-20251112-WA0013.jpg" data-mid="240571825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d38d8e2f81718f574b8878747b13953c752851e74851a742bf3775f5cd421882/IMG-20251112-WA0013.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/135f4f7cbeffe526faa025b270c5cdefb9ad96d8555570c8aad0d05c4c31480a/IMG-20251112-WA0017.jpg" data-mid="240571823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/135f4f7cbeffe526faa025b270c5cdefb9ad96d8555570c8aad0d05c4c31480a/IMG-20251112-WA0017.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/858a13604c1ed966fad2267a22bbb36b06b9425091cf277b8b98ad555cc7730c/DSC04176.jpg" data-mid="219078747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/858a13604c1ed966fad2267a22bbb36b06b9425091cf277b8b98ad555cc7730c/DSC04176.jpg" /> Materials: digital video 23:48 min on silver screen, prints (297 x 420 mm), found suitcases, glass vitrines, archival material (1951-2001)Dimensions: 21.8 × 7.5 m.Year: 2024 https://halarsoomro.com/fragmented-destinations-2024 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:16:03 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/fragmented-destinations-2024 &nbsp; Still image Installation DISPLAYCED 2024 C.V. Landbouwbelang Maastricht (NL) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; fragmented destinations. ٽٽل منزلون The Expired Film Experiment no.1 and 2, emerges from my thesis trip to Southern Pakistan in the fall of 2023, In which I chose to seek visual answers to the questions of statelessness, questions of the contemporary Pakistani identity and an investigation into a longing of a home long-lost, by focusing on my grandmother who came to Karachi from Mumbai as a refugee after the 1947 Partition of the Indian motherland. Intimate family moments, conversations, and trips are captured in these photographs which have a striking hue of the pink and purple color spectrum, which was the natural result of using expired film to capture these images. These were taken in the metropoli of&nbsp; Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Materials:&nbsp; Expired film photographs Dimensions: 297 x 420 mm&nbsp; 250 GM. Year: 2024 <img width="2268" height="4032" width_o="2268" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e7d3337578ef091f217b2ba0bd0a08ccb5e5b460bf9249883f9244aa144b93d/LBB-02.jpg" data-mid="225658637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e7d3337578ef091f217b2ba0bd0a08ccb5e5b460bf9249883f9244aa144b93d/LBB-02.jpg" /> <img width="2160" height="3840" width_o="2160" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0337db6809b5d1f0738f44661aa6a389d5930a8ecaa4e33b34923d252603101/LBB-01.jpg" data-mid="225658635" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0337db6809b5d1f0738f44661aa6a389d5930a8ecaa4e33b34923d252603101/LBB-01.jpg" /> https://halarsoomro.com/The-Beginning-2024 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:50:05 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/The-Beginning-2024 Video Installation The Beginning Maastricht Institute of Arts June 2024 <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/956c1366dd5e52a31d201a24f04a421fd40358f6f9e795ed523530cd5c86ba20/IMG_6316.jpeg" data-mid="219079916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/956c1366dd5e52a31d201a24f04a421fd40358f6f9e795ed523530cd5c86ba20/IMG_6316.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/382e69c0d61e818865dfb6fcfc0ad9b696a94f4be4b57727ee82d49971fb9a40/IMG_6266.jpeg" data-mid="219079914" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/382e69c0d61e818865dfb6fcfc0ad9b696a94f4be4b57727ee82d49971fb9a40/IMG_6266.jpeg" /> Nani, Karachi and I Presented in The Begining exhibition at Maastricht Institue of Arts,"Nani, Karachi and I" is an unscripted film that captures the journey of my Nani as we revisit the old neighborhoods of Karachi,&nbsp; blending together testimonies, archival footage, and the tactile remnants of her life. The film moves through her recollections of leaving behind her childhood home in Mumbai after 1947 and beginning life anew as a refugee in the port city of Karachi. The conversations we share—some lighthearted, others profoundly melancholic — form the core of this work. Materials: digital video 23:48 minDimensions: 2.76:1 p.Year: 2023 https://halarsoomro.com/Traversing-the-Terrain-2023 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:46:03 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/Traversing-the-Terrain-2023 Installation WerkHuis, Genk, Belgium April 2023 <img width="2992" height="2992" width_o="2992" height_o="2992" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8feee3dbf80235bfb18054153497c9e3d55cc4269874e5120c1c33bdd3e8b9c/20230414_163847.jpg" data-mid="240580925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8feee3dbf80235bfb18054153497c9e3d55cc4269874e5120c1c33bdd3e8b9c/20230414_163847.jpg" /> <img width="2992" height="2992" width_o="2992" height_o="2992" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df4a11dc2089a1cb0234ffcf649466abd6773ee54492ceebd0800fac0832f4a5/20230414_163612.jpg" data-mid="240580924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df4a11dc2089a1cb0234ffcf649466abd6773ee54492ceebd0800fac0832f4a5/20230414_163612.jpg" /> <img width="1807" height="1807" width_o="1807" height_o="1807" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec9c60d471dfa030f89329c6093c62fb3c9d8e780349b43f23323d3bf78b741e/20230414_161656.jpg" data-mid="240580936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec9c60d471dfa030f89329c6093c62fb3c9d8e780349b43f23323d3bf78b741e/20230414_161656.jpg" /> Traversing the Terrain Halar built this installation during his participation in a 2 month long research project to map the spirit of Genk, a small city in Flemish Belgium. The exhibition consisted of Plexi Glass Sculptures titled Fluid Obliques and Diary scans of poems written throughout the two month research period tilted “If it is the Answer you seek”&nbsp;and “ गेंक and I”. The first Poem was written as a dialogue between the Halar and the city in his native language of Urdu. It served as an initial motivation for formulating the observational drawing technique also exhibited titled “Ink Trails”.&nbsp; Materials: Picture Frames x 4 (500 × 377 mm), thermoformed acrylic hand-shaped sculptures x 3 (Thickness- 2.3 mm) , in burnt orange, fluorescent pink, and transparent clear.Year: 2023 https://halarsoomro.com/Ink-Trails-at-Spectrum-2023 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:44:04 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/Ink-Trails-at-Spectrum-2023 Ink Trails at Spectrum Banka Studios, Maastricht (NL)2023 <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbda59647b8f35f2cedb99cc36a4bf36f3a021dc35f58f93da21ddcd4708674d/IMG_8518.jpg" data-mid="240667090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbda59647b8f35f2cedb99cc36a4bf36f3a021dc35f58f93da21ddcd4708674d/IMG_8518.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ed23e84c76530c68b8b54e74ea19913a74b74a70c9793049eeae4138722ac91/IMG_8561.jpg" data-mid="240667089" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ed23e84c76530c68b8b54e74ea19913a74b74a70c9793049eeae4138722ac91/IMG_8561.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c51c77c335b9af23c183c734d35bb4f0456dfe4fcb95cb4993db4e28d70b7dda/IMG_8520.jpg" data-mid="240667092" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c51c77c335b9af23c183c734d35bb4f0456dfe4fcb95cb4993db4e28d70b7dda/IMG_8520.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f4fc438738fc7b2d2c4f6f2bf0923e2890d4894791995fa70ee5d55ab1a79b0/IMG_8519.jpg" data-mid="240667091" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f4fc438738fc7b2d2c4f6f2bf0923e2890d4894791995fa70ee5d55ab1a79b0/IMG_8519.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bbdd9ecf470f1f986c200dcf6958eaebc08300728d795fed02d62551749ce82/IMG_8548.jpg" data-mid="240667088" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bbdd9ecf470f1f986c200dcf6958eaebc08300728d795fed02d62551749ce82/IMG_8548.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d758e14f2f8e28200a8a6162ebaa8ff793b45012f412b80808fcb0fad337d40/IMG_8522.jpg" data-mid="240667093" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d758e14f2f8e28200a8a6162ebaa8ff793b45012f412b80808fcb0fad337d40/IMG_8522.jpg" /> Photos by Beau Pyka https://halarsoomro.com/Dhamal-2022 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:01:10 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/Dhamal-2022 Dhamal Museum Dr. Guislain | Ghent (BE)2022 <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e9c1238b37ec7115775e25cfd6cb34cb4558059a4130a8d6042e0fe73b00bc3/IMG_8190.JPG" data-mid="240667454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e9c1238b37ec7115775e25cfd6cb34cb4558059a4130a8d6042e0fe73b00bc3/IMG_8190.JPG" /><img width="1107" height="823" width_o="1107" height_o="823" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc59a164cee6854b22e718538d2c5a873ddd65e07ce7a7b4a76d248e2a1165f4/IMG-20220423-WA0015.jpg" data-mid="240667466" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc59a164cee6854b22e718538d2c5a873ddd65e07ce7a7b4a76d248e2a1165f4/IMG-20220423-WA0015.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c4bac16c21c62c07393af8ac7bdfead7912bdda1ff7ddc569c850243a96df4f/IMG_8127.JPG" data-mid="240667460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c4bac16c21c62c07393af8ac7bdfead7912bdda1ff7ddc569c850243a96df4f/IMG_8127.JPG" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/116844da7d405ed8074ce46b24b5ee8c6e24f58b7be99477371946c9b48ab83a/IMG_8187.JPG" data-mid="240667457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/116844da7d405ed8074ce46b24b5ee8c6e24f58b7be99477371946c9b48ab83a/IMG_8187.JPG" /> Photos by Malu Ebanau https://halarsoomro.com/Anti-Class-a-Carrier-Bag-of-Practices Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:53:24 +0000 Halar Soomro https://halarsoomro.com/Anti-Class-a-Carrier-Bag-of-Practices Publication B32 Artspace Maastricht (NL)2025&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="4000" height="5000" width_o="4000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee44122d6a5bca8df72b68112757d5a89923f2f3071352c34d0a29e9b95cff90/_DSF9059-copy.jpg" data-mid="240663845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee44122d6a5bca8df72b68112757d5a89923f2f3071352c34d0a29e9b95cff90/_DSF9059-copy.jpg" /> I’ve been in a lot of places where I’ve had to reword myself for. Dilute for. Translate for. Package for. Where the language of my care, or rage especially when it was political, got measured against institutional thresholds of acceptability. Too raw, and Too personal. Too much, always. Or not enough. I had to learn how to bend. How to soften the edges of my truth so it could be held in cold hands. But this Class was not that kind of space. These white walls weren't waiting to be slathered with my eastern tale. Instead: There was a mat. my mango. and a moment I spoke freely. " Excerpt from&nbsp;The Mango, the Mat, and the Moment I Spoke Freely By Halar Soomro <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d23b439f5eab43a98cd8581c7f619c4e3d6242abc049e8536e682d07b5d22a88/IMG-20251113-WA0040.jpg" data-mid="240610187" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d23b439f5eab43a98cd8581c7f619c4e3d6242abc049e8536e682d07b5d22a88/IMG-20251113-WA0040.jpg" /> Photo by anna andrejew Anti-Class - a Carrier Bag of Practices Anti-Class: A Carrier Bag of Practices grew out of our time together during the Anti-Class residency at B32 in Maastricht. It’s a bundle — of stories, recipes, reflections, and small experiments that held our time there. Each of us contributed something different: fragments from conversations, gestures from shared meals, notes that refused to resolve. I wrote about the spaces where care and politics meet, where language bends under institutional pressure, however something still manages to grow. Food runs through the book as both connector and contradiction. Its a way of being together that, carries memory, complicity, and tenderness all at once. Designed by Sjoerd Beijers and printed at the Jan van Eyck Academie, the book resists hierarchy; you’re meant to open it, untie the string, and read in any direction. It’s available at Limestone Books (Maastricht), San Seriffe (Amsterdam), and Page Not Found (The Hague) . <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4555e354c89c4d559dd6bdd37c7cdd176bc92acf53210d812105f4e114f01f6/---------a-collection-of-stories--1.jpg" data-mid="240610182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4555e354c89c4d559dd6bdd37c7cdd176bc92acf53210d812105f4e114f01f6/---------a-collection-of-stories--1.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/342c28259e14c87c2df06eae1f6531ba3be61c833e25a8c1e1c499f22ff802ed/---------a-collection-of-stories--2.jpg" data-mid="240610183" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/342c28259e14c87c2df06eae1f6531ba3be61c833e25a8c1e1c499f22ff802ed/---------a-collection-of-stories--2.jpg" /> Photo by&nbsp; anna andrejew " Yet these micro-practices cannot be separated from macro-scale realities. While we nurture cracks underfoot, Palestinians are forced to navigate cracks in the geography of occupation—moving from one “safe zone” to another, their daily lives constrained by borders and displacement. The ethics of care embedded in tending urban cracks contrast sharply with global structures of violence and extraction. Micro attentiveness cannot replace engagement with injustice, but it can model a relational resilience: small acts of care that expose and contest larger systems of harm. "&nbsp; Excerpt from Anti-Class, against smoothness By Sjoerd Beijers " I remember an email from my teacher, when I asked for a letter of recommendation to support my visa. She said it would be best if I first wrote about why I deserve to stay here, and then she would shape that into a letter. A wonderful opportunity, she called it. For me to advocate for myself.“How was it that she didn't realise?” I asked myself, After having advocated for myself since the moment I arrived. Having contoured myself into acceptable fawn. even the right to remain must come from my own hand. a self-portrait of desperation, signed, dated, and ready to be co-signed by someone who will never understand the cost. " Excerpt from The Mango, the Mat, and the Moment I Spoke Freely By Halar Soomro " &nbsp; Water levels are rising, and already a new society is forming within the old one. You can see it in the cracks, between the pavement stones where green shoots push through, where puddles gather and linger, refusing to disappear. Change is a process of trial and error, of unlearning and learning again. We have to discover how to live differently. And humans must be allowed to play, to break their chains, to imagine otherwise. What do I need? Who am I? Who do I want to be? How do I want to live?&nbsp; " Excerpt from Each of Us Raindrops, Together We Flood by anna andrejew <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5131f59ecbd0266bee5ca653b1611f75b90dc0fae91b844d44ed0f663810bd36/IMG-20251113-WA0042.jpg" data-mid="240610189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5131f59ecbd0266bee5ca653b1611f75b90dc0fae91b844d44ed0f663810bd36/IMG-20251113-WA0042.jpg" /> Photo by Işıl Çakmak " For many years, I studied in competitive architecture schools that placed individualism at the center. I felt with all my heart that this was very wrong. Trying and failing to do anything about it. Imaginative fantasies within a huge, old, dusty system. But now, finally, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;together, &nbsp; anticlass...&nbsp; " Excerpt from&nbsp;form follows emotion by Işıl Çakmak <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04e9f449a71bc79cf56770d032ee04eae141cc53a4ac4154ece409b58d20720c/---------a-collection-of-stories-.jpg" data-mid="240610184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04e9f449a71bc79cf56770d032ee04eae141cc53a4ac4154ece409b58d20720c/---------a-collection-of-stories-.jpg" /> Photo by anna andrejew