[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"gql:data:MONBxYgYEhGUyk6f2DwO_Kk0nVufpNZxVFSOnBQAUmQ":3,"gql:data:qDdvJ1vZF1HmINtP6V0pmFuJlo_sbfgXFLaPRptwiqA":57,"gql:data:P1L-3F4yLFT8Sm-6QpbQIoqRmZ3TevlXAnhvTQmaZho":139,"gql:data:tyCI5HNt1HZczdKwWSz9r1bpaSHHrboaGtCGGtlkHBc":146,"gql:data:yxtepiAIgU6wIBqK3wYdgLRWg-QNgf2zDL8SSTsBMXA":218,"gql:data:qmJY4-503CHlJg4_ZSHARjkzFPaXzbxV7BFMovCRKYg":226,"gql:data:HT7XK9L7FevXFqeorguiilMT3M34fS21-YSozsBn3eg":232},{"globalSet":4},{"id":5,"handle":6,"heading":7,"image":8,"contacts":17,"address":28,"networks":35,"richSubtitle":52,"richText":54,"links":56},"2","identity","Ibraaz",[9],{"id":10,"path":11,"alt":12,"title":13,"width":14,"height":15,"mimeType":16},"47","building.png",null,"Building",1536,1024,"image/png",[18,23],{"title":19,"contactLink":20},"General",{"value":21,"defaultLabel":22},"mailto:enquiries@ibraaz.org","enquiries@ibraaz.org",{"title":24,"contactLink":25},"Press",{"value":26,"defaultLabel":27},"mailto:press@ibraaz.org","press@ibraaz.org",[29],{"title":30,"countryCode":31,"addressLine1":32,"addressLine2":12,"addressLine3":12,"locality":33,"postalCode":34},"Location","GB","93 Mortimer Street","London","W1W 7SS",[36,40,44,48],{"title":37,"path":38},"Instagram",{"url":39},"https://www.instagram.com/ibraazlondon/",{"title":41,"path":42},"Facebook",{"url":43},"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583823886627",{"title":45,"path":46},"YouTube",{"url":47},"https://www.youtube.com/@ibraazlondon",{"title":49,"path":50},"Bluesky",{"url":51},"https://bsky.app/profile/ibraaz.bsky.social",{"html":53},"\u003Cp>Opening hours\u003C/p>",{"html":55},"\u003Cp>Wed - Sun: 11am - 6pm\u003C/p>",[],{"solspace_calendar":58},{"events":59},[60],{"id":61,"slug":62,"title":63,"startDate":64,"endDate":65,"allDay":66,"multiDay":66,"freq":12,"interval":12,"meta":67,"richTitle":12,"heading":70,"ticketId":71,"image":72,"figure":79,"figureSide":90,"location":91,"categories":92,"datesText":96,"contentSections":98,"eventSections":103,"authorInfo":104,"notes":109,"heading2":12,"richText":12,"externalLink":110,"related":115},18944,"wildfire-ii","Wildfire II","2026-02-15T14:00:00+00:00","2026-02-15T15:30:00+00:00",false,[68],{"title":63,"description":12,"image":69},[],"Film programme curated by Bani Abidi","2058079",[73],{"id":74,"path":75,"alt":12,"title":76,"width":77,"height":78,"mimeType":16},"18951","wildfire-ii/Cipher-for-the-Missing_still2_2026-02-05-143758_kxfr.png","Cipher for the Missing still2",2940,1652,[80],{"typeHandle":81,"image":82,"caption":86,"width":88,"ratio":89},"figure",[83],{"id":84,"path":85,"alt":12,"title":76,"width":77,"height":78,"mimeType":16},"18949","wildfire-ii/Cipher-for-the-Missing_still2.png",{"html":87},"\u003Cp>a cipher for the missing (2022), Shahana Rajani \u003C/p>","wide","landscape",[],"Minassa",[93],{"title":94,"slug":95},"Film","film",{"html":97},"\u003Cp>Sunday 15 Feb, 2 – 3.30 pm\u003C/p>",[99],{"typeHandle":100,"richTitle":12,"richSubtitle":12,"richText":101},"content",{"html":102},"\u003Cp>In the second of a three-part series, Berlin-based Pakistani artist Bani Abidi reflects on heartbreak and society, introducing new allies and old friends while considering friendship amid collective grief. For \u003Ci>Wildfire II\u003C/i>, Abidi presents films by \u003Cstrong>Shahana Rajani\u003C/strong> and \u003Cstrong>Hira Nabi\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\u003Cp> \u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>FILMS\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">\u003Cstrong>Shahana Rajani \u003C/strong>- \u003Ci>Four Acts of Recovery, \u003C/i>2025 (17:36)\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">Four Acts of Recovery follows a fisher family from the Indus Delta as they turn to practices of drawing and painting to navigate unprecedented infrastructural violence and climate collapse. Displaced from their ancestral Mul creek to the city of Karachi, this family searches for old and new ways of maintaining sacred relation with their shrines and disappearing homelands. As the delta is fast submerged by the sea, the work traces how visual practices are being mobilized and transformed by coastal communities to engender new forms of devotion, dissent and belonging. It connects the practice of painting shrine and sea murals, to Islamic traditions of drawing talismans for protection and recovery. Drawing becomes a ritual that makes space for sacred and ecological worlds amidst annihilation.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Shahana Rajani \u003C/strong>- \u003Ci>a cipher for the missing, \u003C/i>2022 (7:52)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>A cipher for the missing explores the Baloch practice of massad in Karachi, Pakistan, whereby the date palm tree is invoked to help locate the missing. In this practice, dating back to Bibi Fatima (the daughter of Prophet Muhammad), the tree grants access to realms out of sight. The date palm also features as the main emblem of the paramilitary, worn on uniforms and painted on watchtowers and check posts across the city of Karachi. As surveillant technologies of the military-state seek to render all bodies visible, while disappearing those deemed threatening, massad emerges as an alternate practice of recovery that centers relationality and connection to a more-than-human world. A cipher made of leaves that renders the military’s disappearance tactics legible to the very communities that bear the brunt of its violence.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Hira Nabi \u003C/strong>- \u003Ci>All That Perishes At The Edge Of Land\u003C/i>,\u003Ci> \u003C/i>2019 (30:00) \u003C/p>\u003Cp>In this docu-fictional work, 'Ocean Master', a decommissioned container vessel is anthropomorphised, and enters into a dialogue with several workers at the Gadani yards. The conversation moves between dreams and desire, places that can be called home, and the structural violence embedded in the act of dismembering a ship at Gadani. As the workers recall the homes and families they left behind, the long work days mesh indistinguishably into one another, the desperation that they carry with them like shackles rises to the forefront, and they are forced to confront the realities of their work in which they are faced with death every day. How may they survive and look towards the future?  \u003C/p>",[],[105],{"authorName":12,"authorRole":12,"authorPortrait":106,"authorBio":107,"authorUrl":12},[],{"html":108},"\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Bani Abidi \u003C/strong>is a Pakistani visual artist based in Neukölln, Berlin. Along with her studio practice of drawing, photography and film making she runs 'Books of Others', a project space and reading room. Abidi studied visual art at the National College of Arts in Lahore, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; and Gropius Bau, Berlin, amongst others. Selected group exhibitions include Lahore Biennial, 2024; Asia Pacific Triennial, 2021; Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2021; Edinburgh Art Festival, 2016; 8th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2014; documenta (13), 2012; Kochi-Muziris Biennial, 2012 and 10th Lyon Biennale, 2009. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">\u003Cstrong>Shahana Rajani\u003C/strong> 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.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">\u003Cstrong>Hira Nabi\u003C/strong> is a visual artist and filmmaker. She works with cinema, performance, and writing to think with her collaborators on the disappearance of multi-worlds, afterlives, plural temporalities, labour infrastructures, linking histories of colonial extraction with ongoing violence, and articulating gestures of care to find justice and dignity, alongside survival. Gathering and archiving testimonials in the wake of destruction and extinction make up an important part of her practice. In her work, witnessing is a charged act of radical possibility, holding immense potential for collective responsibility and love.\u003C/p>",[],[111],{"title":112,"path":113},"Book now",{"url":114},"https://tickets.ibraaz.org/events/ibraaz/2058079",[116],{"title":12,"relatedEntries":117},[118],{"typeHandle":119,"events":120},"calendarEvents",[121],{"title":122,"slug":123,"startDate":124,"endDate":125,"datesText":126,"image":128,"categories":136,"heading":138},"Wildfire I","wildfire-i","2025-12-04T18:00:00+00:00","2025-12-04T20:30:00+00:00",{"html":127},"\u003Cp>Thursday 4 Dec, 6-8.30pm\u003C/p>",[129],{"id":130,"path":131,"alt":12,"title":132,"width":133,"height":134,"mimeType":135},"14247","Bani-Abidi-1/Hotel-Miks_film-still_00.jpg","Hotel Miks film still 00",2880,1612,"image/jpeg",[137],{"title":94,"slug":95},"Film Programme curated by Bani Abidi",{"globalSet":140},{"id":141,"handle":142,"heading":143,"richText":144},"37","forms","Culture is a work in progress. Stay updated.",{"html":145},"\u003Cp>By subscribing to our newsletter you are agreeing to receiving updates and communications from Ibraaz.\u003C/p>",{"globalSet":147},{"id":148,"handle":149,"linksGroups":150},"128","navigation",[151,157,188,194,200,206,212],{"title":152,"entry":153,"links":156},"What’s On",[154],{"uri":155},"whats-on",[],{"title":158,"entry":159,"links":162},"Publishing",[160],{"uri":161},"ibraaz-publishing",[163,168,173,178,183],{"title":164,"entry":165},"Writing Gaza",[166],{"uri":167},"ibraaz-publishing/writing-gaza",{"title":169,"entry":170},"Mission Statement",[171],{"uri":172},"ibraaz-publishing/mission-statement",{"title":174,"entry":175},"Read",[176],{"uri":177},"ibraaz-publishing/read",{"title":179,"entry":180},"Watch",[181],{"uri":182},"ibraaz-publishing/watch",{"title":184,"entry":185},"Listen",[186],{"uri":187},"ibraaz-publishing/listen",{"title":189,"entry":190,"links":193},"Visit Us",[191],{"uri":192},"visit-us",[],{"title":195,"entry":196,"links":199},"About Us",[197],{"uri":198},"about-us",[],{"title":201,"entry":202,"links":205},"Oula: Café-in-Residence",[203],{"uri":204},"oula-cafe",[],{"title":207,"entry":208,"links":211},"Maktaba: Bookshop-in-Residence",[209],{"uri":210},"maktaba-bookshop-in-residence",[],{"title":213,"entry":214,"links":217},"Contact Us",[215],{"uri":216},"contact-us",[],{"globalSet":219},{"id":220,"handle":221,"activated":66,"heading":222,"richText":223,"text":225},"16767","notification","Visitor Information",{"html":224},"\u003Cp>Please note that our Majlis is currently closed and will reopen with our next exhibition in early July. The rest of the building is open so please do visit!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr /> \u003C/p>","Got it",{"globalSet":227},{"id":228,"handle":229,"heading":12,"richText":230},"11","gdpr",{"html":231},"\u003Cp>We use cookies to give you the best experience. By clicking 'Accept' you consent to the use of all cookies. \u003Ca href=\"/privacy-policy\">Privacy Policy\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>",{"categories":233},[234,239,243,247,251,253,257,261],{"id":235,"slug":236,"title":237,"groupHandle":238},"4488","exhibitions","Exhibition","events",{"id":240,"slug":241,"title":242,"groupHandle":238},"4490","talks","Talk",{"id":244,"slug":245,"title":246,"groupHandle":238},"15579","music","Music",{"id":248,"slug":249,"title":250,"groupHandle":238},"4489","performance","Performance",{"id":252,"slug":95,"title":94,"groupHandle":238},"4492",{"id":254,"slug":255,"title":256,"groupHandle":238},"6390","library-in-residence","Library-in-Residence",{"id":258,"slug":259,"title":260,"groupHandle":238},"18154","special-projects","Special Project",{"id":262,"slug":263,"title":264,"groupHandle":238},"18170","workshops","Workshop"]