How Are Pakistani Artists Grappling With the Climate Crisis?
about 11 months ago (12/06/2023)
How Are Pakistani Artists Grappling With the Climate Crisis? Skip to content Zohreen Murtaza (Pak Khawateen Painting Club), “Untitled” from the series Pari (Fairy) Space in “Symbolism of Home” (2022), digital collage (image courtesy the artist) Near the boundaries of Pakistan’s Sindh and Balochistan provinces lies one of the world’s warmest cities: Jacobabad, where locals endure temperatures as high as 127 degrees Fahrenheit and a severe shortage of water due to improper public water resource management. An inadequate barrage system and an excess of rain is a deadly combination; the city was inundated in 2010 in what was dubbed the “ super-floods ,” resulting in the displacement of thousands of people (well over a million across the country) and loss of life, property, and livestock.