Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- Lahore's contemporary art scene came alive on October 3 with the grand opening of Becoming/Unbecoming at Dot Gulberg, bringing together 152 emerging artists from across Pakistan in one of the city's most expansive showcases of new artistic voices.

Presented by Cosmopolitan Art x Dot and curated by Mahaa Malik and Maham Malik, the exhibition is built around ideas of identity, transformation, growth, memory, attachment, release and the tension between constructing and shedding versions of the self. Rather than asking artists to conform to one visual language, the curatorial approach allows different interpretations of 'becoming' and 'unbecoming' to sit beside one another, creating a layered conversation between persona...