Naiza Khan (Bahawalpur, Pakistan, 1968) explores how bodies, territories and oceans are marked by the imprints of power and colonial legacies. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, photography, video, sound and archiving, understanding cartography as one of the technologies that have historically organised those relationships.

Study to Find a Geometry No. I & II (2024) applies a template-like structure to two very different images: a 17th-century painting of a trading post belonging to the Dutch East India Company in Bengal —a hub for the production of silk and goods for Eurasian sea routes and one of the earliest forms of global industry— and a photograph taken by the artist herself of urban development in Karachi in 2021. By isolating the geometry that structures both landscapes, Khan illustrates how space is organised according to power. At Portus, the former shipyard in the port of Avilés, these pieces reach another shore within the same network of ports, infrastructure and routes that have sustained industrial life for centuries.