{"id":14480,"date":"2025-11-21T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/21\/artists-unite-karachi-mural-revival\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:19:08","slug":"artists-unite-karachi-mural-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/21\/artists-unite-karachi-mural-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Unite for Karachi Mural Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Karachi mural was unveiled at the Arts Council Karachi roundabout in a ceremony attended by city and cultural officials and the artists responsible for the work.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured <strong>Mayor Murtaza Wahab<\/strong> as chief guest, joined by <strong>H.E. Alexis Chahtahtinsky<\/strong>, Consul General of France in Karachi; <strong>Marc Piton<\/strong>, Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of France; <strong>Emmanuel Bruerec<\/strong>, Director of the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Karachi; and <strong>Muhammad Ahmed Shah<\/strong>, President of the Arts Council Pakistan Karachi, who collectively opened the public artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The mural was created by international and local artists \u2014 <strong>Nasty<\/strong> (France), <strong>Seth GlobePainter<\/strong> (France), <strong>Affan Tariq<\/strong> (Pakistan) and <strong>Talal<\/strong> (Pakistan) \u2014 alongside SOVAPA faculty and students. The Karachi mural reflects a collaborative approach that brought together diverse creative voices and institutional support.<\/p>\n<p>The involvement of the French embassy and the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Karachi highlighted the cross-border cultural partnership behind the project, while Arts Council Pakistan Karachi provided the public platform for the unveiling. The event underscored ongoing efforts to enrich Karachi&#8217;s public spaces through art.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative aims to encourage further public art projects and community engagement around the roundabout, positioning the Karachi mural as part of a wider cultural push to activate urban spaces and celebrate artistic exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi mural unveiled at Arts Council Karachi roundabout as international and local artists collaborate with city officials and Alliance Fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}