"Jacquard weavings from Batwara Series," Savneet Talwar, 2024. Join us on First Thursday, August 7, to celebrate the opening of Partition Is Imaginary at ARTS at King Street Station! Learn more about this exhibition below.
ARTS at King Street Station is open Wed. – Sat. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. on First Thursdays. Admission is free. The gallery is located at 303 S. Jackson St., Top Floor, Seattle, WA 98104.
Partition Is Imaginary
On View Aug. 7 – Oct. 4, 2025
Partition is Imaginary emerges from artist and curator Rohena Alam Khan’s journey retracing her grandparents’ footsteps from Delhi to Rawalpindi on August 15, 1947. That journey, undertaken in the spirit of remembrance and inquiry, took her to West Bengal, to the India-Pakistan border at Wagah, and to the Partition Museum in Amritsar, Punjab. This exhibition is a collective reckoning with the enduring legacies of Partition and the porous boundaries between memory, identity, and nationhood. This exhibit features artists Rohena Alam Khan, Yaminee Patel, Savneet Talwar, Sara Singh, Manisha Davesar, Riaz Ali, Maleeha Bukhari, Suhaila Meera, Swaleha Masude, Petra Kaur, Syeda Wafa Zahra, Shima Star, Dev Jhala, and Shruti Ghatak.
Rohena Alam Khan is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist. She was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh and completed her Bachelors in Journalism and Fine Art from Winthrop University in South Carolina. During the early years of Rohena’s corporate career in Copywriting, she completed another degree in Graphic Design from Raffles International College in Bangkok, Thailand.
What to Expect
Partition Is Imaginary contains 2D and 3D work and film media containing depictions of the human form, cultural objects and clothing, borders, modes of transportation, and abstract representations.
Themes include displacement, religious and political conflict, generational trauma, the impact of colonialism, familial and cultural connections, and the dream of solidarity.
