Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions for the Future
and Past of the Coming Days

Sophie Ernst explores themes of memory, displacement and cultural relativity through video and installation work that often reflects the complexities of the relationship between East and West.

Boyhood memories, teenage experiences and the intensity of relationships, both new and old, real and imaginary, are recurring themes in the work of Amir H. Fallah.

Italian Artist Lara Favaretto provokes and engages her audiences with work that is both playful and celebratory while paradoxically evoking the inevitability of failure and decay.

Working with simple materials, Gill translates and expands the elusive qualities of her local places and her habitation of them.

In many of my works I bring together specificity of place, form and materials into a language of abstraction.
Sheela Gowda

The work of Laurent Grasso has developed from his fascination with electromagnetic energy, radio waves, light, sound, paranormal activity and naturally occurring scientific phenomena.

The work of N.S. Harsha embraces painting, installation, site-specific and community projects. Communicating narratives of everyday life, his work combines an eclectic range of images and iconography taken from his homeland of India and the wider world beyond.

The Army experience can also be considered as the source of my cartographic ‘painting style’ which maps the ground between painting, photography and information. Doug Henders

Over the past few years, Iman Issa’s work has explored the contemporary relevance of objects, ideas and modes of communication that seemingly belong to another time.

Politcs, power relationships, sexuality and communication are often the focus of the work of Agnes Janich.

Visual artist and filmmaker Lamia Joreige uses archival documents and elements of fiction to reflect on the construction of historical narratives and the relationship between individual stories and collective memory.

Since the mid 1990s, Fernando José Pereira has used video to explore a range of interests that have recently focused on the remote territories of the extreme North.

Hayv Kahraman uses the visual languages of the Italian Renaissance, and the figurative style of traditional Japanese and Islamic art in intricately detailed paintings of women as they carry out the rituals of daily or celebratory life.

Elena Kovylina uses a range of media including video, film, installation and performance in work that, while often brutal and satirical, explores and deconstructs notions of identity and addresses both the historical and contemporary impact of Russia's political and social structures.