Baseera's Khan's practice centers on how power moves through perception, desire, and the everyday act of seeing. Color is a primary tool shaping Khan’s emotional response that is used to point out systemic strategies of collective visibility and control. For Khan, materials are never neutral. They carry traces of labor, restriction, and aspiration. Khan refers to this work as “shape-making in a world where that specific shape has not yet been made.”

This installation is anchored by a partial column that recalls classical architecture but also refuses its promise of permanence. The column’s transparency shifts attention away from monumentality and toward exposure and regulation. The form is wrapped in Kashmiri silk produced and smuggled out by artisans working under curfew during political unrest in 2019. Here, color becomes a site where attraction and constraint meet.

Six hand-worked prayer rugs extend this exploration into intimate and communal space. Devotional imagery appears alongside graphic laguage drawn from protest and contemporary media. The rugs ask the body to enter the work, creating moments where belief, identity, and resistance intersect.

Together, these works shift attention toward futurity. Fixed forms give way to adjustment, revision, and reuse. Khan proposes a future shaped through agency, where the rules are rewritten by those living within the systems that once controlled them.