Police allegedly force removal of biennale work

An artwork that references controversial police raid killings in Karachi, Pakistan, has allegedly been removed from the city's biennale following intimidation by plain clothes officers.

Pakistani newspaper the Dawn has reported that the officers demanded organisers close artist Adeela Suleman's exhibit, which features 444 concrete tombstones, before attempting to damage the installation. Karachi Biennale organisers said Suleman's perspective was "not compatible" with the event's theme of 'Ecology and the Environment': "politicising that platform will go against our efforts to bring art into the public and drawing artists from the fringe to the mainstream cultural discourse."