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

A conceptual and installation artist, Duman’s projects have largely reflected the development of public art practice in the UK.

Cairo-based artist Sherif El Azma has worked extensively in film and video, producing short, experimental pieces such as Powerchord Skateboard, documentary shorts like Interview with a Housewife and full-length television pilots for Egyptian Soap Opera. His 2001 film Donia / Amar was screened as part of Past of the Coming Days.

Dancer, performer and choreographer, Erin Ellen Kelly uses techniques from Butoh, qigong, gymnastics, farming, cabaret dancing, and performance action-theatre to create performance installation pieces that comment on the human condition and its relationship to environment and society.

Haris Epaminonda uses video and film, collage, photography, books and objects in an extensive process of assembling and disassembling appropriated materials to reconstruct non-linear narratives in her work

The public projects of Ayşe Erkmen nearly always reflect her concerns with the physical, cultural and social landscapes in which she works.

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.

Ahmed Foula studied Architecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria University.

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.

Tarek Halaby is a Palestinian-American performer. After graduating from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance, he lived and worked in New York where he danced with a variety of companies and independent choreographers.

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