
In Facsimile, Hafsa Nouman explores how memory, ecology, and belonging leave their mark on ordinary objects. The exhibition’s centerpiece is a 13 x 7 ft painting replicating the dastarkhwaan—a traditional floor-spread used for communal eating across Central and South Asia—from her grandmother's demolished home in Pakistan. Accompanying fruit paintings and a muslin tree trace colonial history and displacement, asking what forms of community are lost when intimacy becomes formalized through furniture and status.