Elyas Alavi & Fazil Mousavi

Biannual Façade Commission

23 July 2025 to 25 Jan 2026

artist and poet Elyas Alavi will collaborate for the first time with Quetta-based senior artist Fazil Mousavi, bringing their painting practices and work with language into dialogue across oceans. Alavi met Mousavi during his time in Pakistan for the Lahore Biennale, when he visited Quetta to connect with relatives and the broader Hazara diaspora that has made a home there. The two bonded over their shared artistic approaches, using painting and installation to explore the complex intersections of memory, displacement, and race, challenging conventional notions of culture and belonging.

Image: Fazil Hussain Mousavi, شک و حیرت II. Courtesy of the artist.