For the Love of Life gets under way.

KARACHI -- There's a remarkable line in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'The course of true love never did run smooth.' The depth of meaning in the straightforwardness of the message is astounding. We all know that to love someone or something cannot be without pain and pitfalls. And yet, we want to experience that.

A-two person show titled For the Love of Life that can be seen at the Canvas Art Gallery adds an extra significant element to the idea, which is, to love life. Now what is life without love? But then having a trouble-free existence, with or without loving anything, is almost impossible. This makes the concepts of comfort and freedom in such a framework even more intriguing, and the exhibition worth visiting.

The two talented artists - Amna Rahman and Kiran Saleem - whose paintings are on view intelligently present the personal and the historical (the latter not in the collective sense but with an individual's history in mind) through their creative efforts for the solitary reason: to explore the unexplored.

The series that Kiran has come up with is named 'History is not her-story'...