_{When dealing with the case of Partition, like most traditional governmental matters, the paperwork and history is mired in bureaucracy, the exact events many times forgotten and lost midst the piles of paperwork and red-tape. The protocols of the governmental matters, or the ‘sarkari’ in colloquial terms, are oft so long winded midst the rituals of officialism – imitations of colonial protocol – initiatives commenced with the best of intentions are warped, forgotten, abandoned and transformed. The official file, a small folder meant to contain data of a point of concern, can often turn into a battleground of egos, a temple official formalities, and a space of redundant repetition.}

_{In the Proposal for a Memorial to Partition, the Pak Khawateen play out the conventions of governmental procedures. As the file transitions back and forth between multiple offices and cities, the original message is warped, loopholes created, and small insets for corruption are created through the meaningless conversation. Through series of banal correspondences steeped in official language, the project transforms as multiple ideologies, cultural considerations, and political manoeuvrings intervene over the original intent of the proposition, till it meets it’s inevitable fate of abandonment.}

_{Pak Khawateen Painting Club: Saulat Ajmal, Saba Khan, Amna Hashmi, and Zohreen Murtaza}

_{Photo Credits:
Daniella Bapista/Jameel Arts Centre}