Pakistan, Oct. 17 -- The Lahore Arts Council Alhamra presented Threads of Connections: Reimagining the Traditional Phulkari, a solo exhibition by Wardah Naeem Bukhari, curated by Aasim Akhtar, at the Ustad Allah Bux Gallery, Alhamra, the Mall.

Mehmet Eymen ?im?ek, Consul General of the Republic of Turkiye, was the Chief Guest of the exhibition. The exhibition invited viewers into a luminous conversation between past and present, where each embroidered stitch served as both testimony and transcendence.

Wardah's practice traced the intimate lineage of cloth and memory; she drew upon the needlework of her mother as a formative archive and from those earliest, meditative stitches, she fashioned a contemporary visual language. The works on d...