The Tide Country (2022)

Overview

Pak Khawateen Painting Club [Pure Pakistani Women’s Painting Club] is a collective whose provocateurs investigate colossal hydrological engineering structures on the Indus River with transnational implications, including Indigenous displacement, land salinisation and ecological decline. Composed of forms resembling the design of the machinery on the River Indus barrages, the installation The Tide Country (2022) elaborates on the ecological consequences of the river’s segmentation and exploitation. Zines placed within each of the machines present findings by the artists’ that extend their critique of capitalist colonialism.