No Father - No Frontier
DETAILS
Friday, March 7, 2025 (opening ceremony: 5:30 - 7:30 PM)
through
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Twelve Gates Arts
106 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, United States (map)
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
12Gates is honored to present No Father–No Frontier, a two-person show curated by Protyasha Pandey and featuring work by Humaira Abid and Aiza Ahmed. No Father–No Frontier opens on Friday, March 7th, 2025, and will remain on view until Saturday, April 26th, 2025.
No Father–No Frontier is an examination of the relationship between family and state, and their subversions by the female gaze in exile. All three of us, removed from our points of origin, in the tout-monde–the West is in us, we are in the West. Displacement affords us the luxury of viewing distance. Drawing on the feminist argument for family abolition, Humaira Abid and Aiza Ahmed deliver critiques of paterfamilial regimes, and lay claim to personhood made outside of the established paradigms of lineage and citizenship.
Protyasha Pandey was born and raised in Hyderabad, India. She now lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. Pandey received her BArch from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi (2017) and her MA in Global Arts and Cultures from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island (2024). She has curated the photography and new media exhibition, Home/World, at the Rhode Island School of Design Department of Photography Graduate Biennial.
Aiza Ahmed was born in Lahore, Pakistan and raised across Pakistan, the UK, and the UAE. She now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Ahmed received her BFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (2020) and her MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island (2024). Her works have been exhibited at the RISD Museum, Providence; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; Christie’s, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca; Rajiv Menon Contemporary; Los Angeles; New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), New York; Aicon Gallery; New York; Franklin Parrasch; New York; VM Art Gallery, Karachi; and Dominion Gallery, Lahore. Among others.
Humaira Abid was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She now lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Abid received her BFA in Sculpture and Miniature painting from the National College of Arts, Lahore (2000). Her works feature in the permanent collections of Tacoma Art Museum; SeaTac International Airport; Pennsylvania Academy of Art (PAFA); National Art Gallery and Museum, Islamabad; Sarawak Living Museum; Partage Contemporary Artists Association, Mauritius; Daetz Centre (Museum of Sculpture in Wood), Lichtenstein; Kuona Trust International, Nairobi; Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Washington; Tweed Museum of Art, Minnesota, as well as several public and private art collections worldwide.