Asad Raza, The Bedroom, 2018, Lahore Biennale, Lahore, 2018, Photo: Atif Saeed

For the inaugural Lahore biennial, Asad Raza created an inhabited work in the Summer Palace, in dialogue with its syncretic architectural and cultural legacy. Transforming a portion of this place of royal respite into a chamber inspired by activities common to the present and the Mughal epochs, the work produced inter-subjective encounters. The echoes of the leisurely forms of playing and thinking that once occupied these quarters are amplified and rewritten according to the present.