
Un-Drum 2/ The Chinese Connection
Tarek Atoui
2009
Un-drum is a complex interaction between music composition, body movement, performance and computer and electronic engineering.
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Tarek Atoui
2009
Un-drum is a complex interaction between music composition, body movement, performance and computer and electronic engineering.
Hala Elkoussy
2007—2009
On red nails, palm trees and other icons is a personal archive of images that came together over the course of a year and a half.
Marwan Rechmaoui
2004
First shown in Sharjah Biennial 7 and now part of the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Beirut Caoutchouc is one of Rechmaoui’s best known works.
Marwan Rechmaoui
2009
A Monument for the Living is a human-scale replica of the notorious Burj al Murr, a derelict concrete high-rise that towers over downtown Beirut.
Abbas Hamra
2007—2008
God Grows on Trees seeks to speak at once about religion, fear, hope, humanity, love and commoditisation.
Abbas Hamra
2009
Men take off their shoes before entering into a large room to sit close to each other in a circle. Women do the same on the other side of a curtain that separates them from the men.
Laurent Grasso
2009
Translated from Arabic, the phrase reads ‘The wider the vision, the narrower the statement’ and is by the Sufi writer Al Naffari.
Haig Aivazian
2009
FUGERE (A Series of Olympiadic Moments) is an exploration into the strangeness of the realm of professional sport.
Samira Badran
2009
With Have a Pleasant Stay! I wanted to create a space for reflection and empathy, a visual and physical metaphor of the concept of suffocation and claustrophobia.
Doris Bittar
2009
My project for the biennial is broad and in four parts, one of which is a long and narrow footpath from the entrance of the museum to the Persian spice market along the Corniche harbour.
Melissa Chimera and Adele Ne Jame
2009
Melissa Chimera created a series of oil paintings of white flowers, displayed in tandem with Ne Jame’s poems which evoke humanity’s connection to the seen and unseen world.
Alberto Duman
2009
Decoder can be read as an inverted monument to the preferred mythology of a consumer-driven model of market capitalism.
Eugenio Dittborn
2002—2008
The following is a text in progress, dating back to 1985 and now published in its eighth state; it is the Ars Pictorica of the Airmail Paintings:
Lamya Gargash
2008—2009
The Majlis is a series of photographs documenting different sitting areas regionally.
Sheela Gowda
2009
On my first visit to Sharjah, I came with very little knowledge about the cultural and physical nature of life in this part of the world.
Giuseppe Moscatello
2009
I work on the concept of time mainly by dissecting and analyzing time in relation to movement and the pace at which time moves.