“I think of my life’s work as a celebration of all of nature, an orchestra that plays not the sounds of one musician, the music of one species, but rather an expression of all of nature’s songs.” – Gregory Colbert

This Land is your Land, curated by Imran Qureshi, takes its title from a poem by Woody Guthrie signifying the message that we are all (including wildlife) equally entitled to the rights of this land that we stand on. The exhibition features work by Elisa Caldana and Kamran Saleem that addresses a shared desire for all species to participate in a universal conversation, seeing nature as the greatest storyteller of all.
Elisa Caldana, born in 1986, is an Italian artist working primarily with sculpture, performance, film and writing. She graduated from Städelschule Frankfurt, and the University of Venice, and has shown internationally at The Hague, Amsterdam, Rome, Bologna, Turin, London, Mexico City, Tokyo and Frankfurt-am-Main. She is an alumna of Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and recipient of the Mondrian Fund.

The Falcon of Karachi, comprising a video projection and a soundscape, was produced with Luisa Puterman (composer) and Zeerak Ahmed (vocalist) in collaboration with Vasl Artists’ Association in Karachi – where she had been an artist-in-residence (2024).
The video piece ‘explores the identity of Laggar Falcon’, taken captive in Malir, tied to a charpoy. The audio piece originated ‘as an attempt at imagining a sound identity for the bird…without words.’

Kamran Saleem is a wildlife filmmaker. His documentary Deosai – The Last Sanctuary won the prize for Protection of Nature at the Ménigoute Film Festival in France, and his books, including Birds of Sialkot and Land of Rhyming Cliffs are much celebrated. The series of images presented in the show focus on a herd of deer in the wild threatened with extinction, forced displacement, exile and emigration. Proprietorship and possession of land by human beings has led to their dwindling population and migration.