In Transit` is the title of a group show mounted at the Full Circle Gallery, Karachi where six contemporary young artists explore themes of longing, loss and connection with often laconic observations of the world around them.

`Sorry I can`t hear you l`m kinda busy` is the title of Numair Abbasi`s expressive style of painting that evokes innuendoes for the audience to decipher. The unconventional nudity of his subject suggests the unfolding of a new discourse reflecting the energy in his bold brushwork.Abbasi is a recent graduate of Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) where he studied sculpture and photography and was the recipient of several awards for writing and research. A practising artist and writer, his dynamic work was previously seen in December 2014 in a three-artist show in Karachi.

A series of paintings combining myriad shades of blue titled: `Prelude to blue` is the work of Seher Aziz, who takes the audience on a visual journey through skies and seas and imagined landscapes composed from oil on paper. Much travelled Seher returned to Karachi in 2012, after studying liberal arts at the Bennington College, Vermont, before going on to take her masters in architecture from Yale School of Architecture. She is an artist with considerable experience of working on creative projects in New York, Germany and England, and is now affiliated with Studio Subtractive, and the design studio faculty of I VS.

In his glowing acrylic on canvas paintings, Ammad Tahir highlights his concern for visual narrative and the construction of occur-rences contained in his paintings. His views on the multicultural aspects of Karachi are illustrated by his use of colour; with the bright, textured constructions one on the other expressing his views, Tahir proves to be an artist whose audacious use of colour gives equal importance to each shade without any colour dominating his canvas.

Naveen Shakil describes in her work an ongoing dialogue `between depicting the figurative realism into surrealism while fusing it with elements of geometry to create a more pictorial tension`. The artist`s contribution to the show consists of two four by six feet acrylic on canvas paintings selected for the Florence X Biennale October 2015. The beautiful linear work in shades of gray examines the emotional impact of the entangled figures evocatively portrayed. The artist is the first woman from Pakistan to be invited to exhibit her work at the Florence X Biennale.

Yasir Waqas combines his qualifications as an aircraft mechanic from the Civil Aviation Authority, with a BFA in miniature painting from the National College ofArts, graduating with a distinction in 2013. His extremely interesting work combines gouache on wasli with organic and metallic elements.

Waqas`s work has been exhibited in London, New Delhi and in Alexandria as well as Karachi and Lahore. Describing his work the artist relates, `My work is about compromises and conflicts within a personality between an idea innate and an idea implanted ...` the allegorical references in the artist`s work may be considered a metaphor as relevant as his media.

`What you see is not what you get` is the theme of Shanzay Subzwari`s work in show. An outsize `dollar` note bearing portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and the Queen of England, which the artist describes, `the basis of money as a major decision maker, as well as a symbol of power.` A painting titled Angels flight` is focused on the red, velvet textured petals of a perfect rose and questioning the symbol of love the flower represents. Recontextualising classic conventions, the artist raised the question: `Are we looking at the world through rosetinted glasses?` E