Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial

Over the past decade Walid Raad has been fascinated by the emergence of new art museums, galleries, schools and cultural foundations in Arab cities, by way of which the makers, sponsors, consumers, forms and histories of Arab art are becoming more and more visible.

From 17th century Sarmatism, the dominant ideology amongst the Polish nobility, to monobrows in America and the Green movement in presentday Iran, Friendship of Nations traces an ambitious if unlikely genealogy between Iran and Poland.

Lament of the Images is a philosophical essay on representation

In 1979, Samir Ghosseini’s Hasna’ wa ‘Amaliqa (The Beauty and the Giants) premiered in Beirut, marking the launch of the Lebanese action cinema genre.

In his new body of works Ramin Haerizade depicts multiple reproductions of the self, as fractured, mirrored, morphed, amorphous, cross-gendered, bestial, a Kafkaesque indeterminate creature with a distinctly evolved phallicism.

Their Dreams is a work inspired from children's stories of their dreams about what they could be and what they hope to receive from the world.

An ode to the thousands struggling for democracy in Burma.

Portraits of the artists shot in studios in Beirut, Damascus, Cairo and Sharjah.

The Mapping Journey Project is a mixed-media installation that combines eight video works and a printed map.

The Neighbour Before the House is a series of video probes into the landscape of East Jerusalem.

The project of a 3D (stereoscopic) film by Armin Linke and Francesco Mattuzzi completed with the visual effects created by Francesco Siddi refers to the 19th century invention of stereoscopic technology.

Michael Bears’s illustrations, cast in the vocabulary of graphic novels are a map of DAAR’s networks and origin of projects.

The installation explores the thickness of the boundaries, and follows it along edges of villages and towns, across fields, orchards, roads, gardens, kindergartens, fences, terraces, homes, public buildings, a football stadium, a mosque and finally a large recently built castle.