Islamabad: Adam and Eve romancing in a huge garbage heap, a Mughal emperor wooing a 21st century scantily-clad model with "you don't know how much I love you" and a bleeding heart popping out of a swank leather jacket this is how Pakistani artists conveyed their idea of love at the National Art Gallery here.

The images of love, which even had Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan with his love interest in a very-1970ish poster, were put together by curator Rabia.

Anwar Saeed's collage "Kings Never Fall in Love" and Ali Talpur's "I Love You" with the tag line "you don't know how much I love you" told the woes of modern love.

Omer Khan's heart a very clinical take on the highs and lows in love greeted viewers at the entrance. Giving it company was Shah Rukh Khan in a painting titled "All Is Well If The End Is Well".

But it was the women artists who stole the show.

Masooma Syed's blood-red long leather coat with a bleeding heart was a show-stopper.

Juxtaposed across her work was Adeela Suleiman's even more intriguing union of human existence "It Feels Like Fire". Suleiman used gear box covers, peppered with red pom-poms and roses to depict the males.

The females were placed several layers below their companions, depicting their status in society, with mostly knots, and not roses, dotting their existence.

With Jamil Baloch's sculpture of towering black-veiled women greeting visitors in the forecourt of the gallery, quite a few visitors were pleasantly surprised at the exhibits.

Source : PTI