Dastaan Goi

Taking his unique new Tanabana textile designs and referring back to the family library, Qureshi has also conceived seven new monumental works. He took inspiration from the Sabaq-Amoz Kahaniyan, exemplary tales shared for generations as moral stories to instil good character in children. Each story illustrates a particular lesson, serving either as a caution or as a salutary example to follow. Homing in on passages or moments from these books, Qureshi brings their protagonists and landscapes to life and clothes them in his Tanabana designs. Removed from their immediate narratives, these faceless figures connect to folk traditions of storytelling dating back thousands of years, and across continents. A celebration of ornament and colour, the works combine drawing, collage and screen-printing in his most intricate and exuberant series to date.