Publication Details
March Meeting: Active Forms
Exhibition Guide
Paperback
16.5 x 11.5 cm
Arabic and English
262 pages, 51 visuals
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation, 2018
Overview
This publication accompanies the annual March Meeting sessions organised by Sharjah Art Foundation. It presents a programme of events and activities for March Meeting 2018 (17–19 March) that coincide with the opening of the foundation’s spring exhibitions. March Meeting provides an opportunity to collectively examine practices in art, writing, film, music, performance and architecture. The 2018 edition explores issues of resistance through consideration of organising as a primary act and condition for artistic and cultural production. The aim is to examine practices that extend and intensify engagement with present and past knowledges of resistance. The programme also seeks to investigate the relationship between recognisable forms, such as projects, exhibitions and conferences, and the surrounding informality from which these events emerge.
Parallel to March Meeting 2018, the exhibition Active Forms features works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection by artists John Akomfrah, Basma Alsharif, Halil Altındere, Bahar Behbahani, Simone Fattal, Hazem Harb, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, Maha Maamoun, Almagul Menlibayeva, Naeem Mohaiemen, Magdi Mostafa, Raeda Saadeh, Sharif Waked and Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara.
Active Forms: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
In addition to the programme of talks, panel discussions and performances, the 2018 edition of March Meeting will include an exhibition of works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, on view from 16 March to 16 June 2018.
Akomfrah, John
John Akomfrah delves into themes of memory, identity, postcolonialism, temporality and the politics of aesthetics through his experimentations with the moving image.
Basma Al Sharif: Farther Than The Eye Can See
This book of postcards contains stills from Alsharif’s video installation, Farther Than The Eye Can See.
Altindere, Halil
In his critical and political approach, artist and filmmaker Halil Altındere explores political, social and cultural codes, focusing on depicting marginalisation and resistance to oppressive systems.
Behbahani, Bahar
Bahar Behbahani is a multidisciplinary artist whose work stages an ongoing conceptual dialogue with memory and erasure.
Fattal, Simone
Traversing the worlds of visual art and literature, Simone Fattal’s work includes sculpture, non-figurative ceramic forms, paintings, collage and works based in textual composition.
Simone Fattal
This publication accompanies a solo exhibition of the same name produced by Sharjah Art Foundation. It features recent works by the Lebanese artist Simone Fattal, including sculptures, paintings and mixed media artworks.
Simone Fattal
This solo exhibition features recent works by Simone Fattal including sculpture, simple non-figurative ceramic forms and works based in textual compositions, collage as well as paintings.
Harb, Hazem
Working with drawing, painting, graphic design, video and sculpture, Hazem Harb creates installations that highlight issues of war, loss, trauma, human vulnerability and global instability.
Maamoun, Maha
Maha Maamoun is an artist who works primarily with the mediums of text, photography and video.
Menlibayeva, Almagul
Almagul Menlibayeva is a contemporary artist and photographer who works simultaneously in painting, graphic art, performances, installations and videos.
Mohaiemen, Naeem
Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, drawings and installations to research socialist utopias, incomplete decolonisations, language wars and shifting borders.
Mostafa, Magdi
Magdi Mostafa’s practice focuses primarily on site-specific, research-driven installation and performance projects, multimedia installations and experimental ‘sound-based’ works.
Saadeh, Raeda
Raeda Sa’adeh’s work is mainly rooted in photography, performance and video, and the artist uses her own body as the core subject of most of her work.
Waked, Sharif
Sharif Waked’s work, reflects on power, politics and the everyday, often creating junctions between particular moments in the present and cultural references from the past.
Mosallam Zarara, Abdul Hay
Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara used his work to decry the violent suppression of his homeland and promote international solidarity worldwide.
Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara
The 31 works in this exhibition depict everyday life, weddings, social gatherings and traditional celebrations.Through these works, Zarara serves and represents historical information and impassioned prose.
Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara
This publication is part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s monograph series on the practices, processes and conceptual contributions of influential artists from around the world. The Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara monograph offers both a record and an insightful analysis of the artist’s work.