Para Site is delighted to present “In drawing, in remembrance” (open 11 October 2025 – 1 February 2026), a solo exhibition by Pakistani artist Shahana Rajani. As the artist’s first institutional presentation in Hong Kong, the exhibition centres on two video works that follow communities in the Indus River Delta displaced by infrastructural violence and climate collapse. 

Four Acts of Recovery (2024) is a meditative documentary that examines different drawing practices used by a family from the Delta region as the titular ‘acts of recovery’. Making maps from memory, painting lost landscapes, crafting Islamic talismans—these all become poignant ways for the family to maintain a connection to their homeland, which is on the brink of submersion due to urban development, environmental crisis, or environmental crisis caused by urban development.

Exhibited for the first time, Lines that World a River (2025) is a video essay that extrapolates from the narrative in Four Acts of Recovery to enact a critique of the political and capitalist forces driving community displacement in and around Karachi. Here, the artist engages with a group of activists to contemplate the ephemeral nature of the local riverine landscape vis-à-vis the irreversible violence of infrastructure-building on the same land.

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