Traces: Drawing Practices Now, COMO Museum, 2026
TRACES: Drawing Practices Now
COMO Museum, Lahore
March 27, 2026 – June 30, 2026
Group Exhibition | Curated by Hasan Shaikh
Drawing is among the most immediate and fundamental languages of artistic practice. This exhibition explores mark-making as a way of observing and responding to the world.
The mark registers movement, pressure, hesitation, rhythm - acting as both evidence of a moment and a generative act. The trace of the hand, in its immediacy, maps patterns of thought.
Across the works presented, the line functions as an originating gesture from which other processes unfold. Initial linear marks extend and accumulate, gradually giving rise to broader gestural practices that shape surfaces, structures, and spatial relationships.
By foregrounding mark-making, the exhibition focuses on how drawing continues to inform present day practices.
Hassan Sheikh | Curator
Traces: Drawing Practices Now, Installation view 7, COMO Museum, 2026,
Right: Ayessha Quraishi, The Shift, oil on paper, 121.92 × 213.36 cm | 46 x 84 in, 2024, Installation view 4, COMO Museum, 2026
Centre: Ayessha Quraishi, What Remains (ongoing series), Installation view 4, COMO Museum, 2026
Ayessha Quraishi, What Remains (ongoing series), ink on sun-stained paper, 27.94×38.1 cm each | 11×15 in each, Installation view 5, COMO Museum, 2026
Traces: Drawing Practices Now, Installation view 1, COMO Museum, 2026
Images courtesy of COMO Museum / Hasan Shaikh