Some of the artworks displayed in the exhibition.—White Star KARACHI: Very few mythological characters have impacted the lives and works of the artist community the way Sisyphus has. Before telling his story to the uninitiated, here’s the context of this introduction. An exhibition of Suleman Faisal’s artworks titled Orange Sisyphus is under way at the Canvas Art Gallery. It is the ‘culmination’ of the Vasl-Khurram Kasim Art Foundation Research Grant that the artist received in 2020. Now the story of Sisyphus: he is a character from Greek mythology who gets punished by the gods for cheating death twice. The punishment that is meted out to him is of a unique nature — he has to roll a giant stone up a mountain, bring it down and keep doing it ceaselessly. This myth to a large extent was popularised, as far as the modern world is concerned, by novelist Albert Camus. He wrote a very incisive essay in the early 1940s on the character, juxtaposing his struggle with existentialist crises.