Collection

DAYS, I See What I Saw and What I Will See explores the notion of producing a continuous representation of space and a discontinuous representation of time – at the same time.

Death at a 30 Degree Angle is a multimedia installation composed of video, architectural drawings and clay maquettes.

Six sheets of hand-cut paper depicting the text of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Arabic.

Dictums 10:120 is a multipart project that involves the composition and performance of a qawwali song.

Wael Shawky began Dictums 10:120, a multipart project that involves the composition and performance of a qawwali song, during the Witness Programme, an artists’ residency at Sharjah Biennial 10.

Dilbar is a portrait of a city builder, one of a million Bangladeshi workers currently living in the United Arab Emirates.

In Domestic Tourism II, Maha Maamoun explores how the ‘timeless’ image of the Egyptian pyramids - projected by the tourism industry - can be challenged by reworking representations of these historic monuments into urban narratives that highlight their complex political, social and historical dimensions.

Khan presents a glass sculpture that combines the sleek and minimal form of a column with a rough, maladroit shape.

Echo screens the well-known sequence from El Ard alongside Nasr’s footage of El Ansary. The projections face and echo one another, suggesting that the problems which faced Egyptian society in 1933 and 1969 remain unresolved in 2003.

Enclosed revisits the extraordinary history of a monument located in the heart of Algiers.

A celebrated writer, poet, artist and filmmaker, Etel Adnan is considered a leading figure in modern and contemporary art and an influence on generations of artists, poets and intellectuals.