Naked Punch

Naked Punch is an independent art advisory and publishing platform rooted in Lahore's contemporary art scene. Founded by practitioners who spent a decade building relationships with the best local artists, it bridges South Asian creative work and international institutional buyers.

The founders had extraordinary relationships and a decade of credibility inside Lahore's art world — but no platform that made any of it legible or accessible to international galleries, collectors, or institutional buyers. Their work lived in private conversations and handshakes, not on a searchable, trustworthy digital presence.

Esipick.org built the platform from the ground up. Not just a website — a structured digital identity that communicated the credibility of a decade of insider access, with an archive of artists, an editorial layer, and an advisory interface that spoke the language of institutional buyers.

Naked Punch now operates as a credible digital gateway between Pakistan's contemporary art ecosystem and international audiences — extending the reach of relationships that previously stopped at the city's edge.

Independent cultural production has always operated on thin margins, but the past five years have compressed those margins further while simultaneously expanding who gets to make culture and where it …

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