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

For the past ten years, David Spriggs has been creating artwork based on the concepts of power, immaterial form, perception and the relationships between the thresholds of space.

Viewed as one of Portugal's leading feminist artists, Vidigal is best known for her large-scale collage works that use layers of simple textures and materials to invoke new responses to experiences of the 'everyday'.

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.

English sisters Jane and Louise Wilson are best known for film and video installations where architectural settings are used to investigate issues of power, control and collective memory.

Painting, drawing, engraving, graffiti, photography, video and installation intermesh to create a discourse which contains as much criticism and disruptive power as it does a sort of velvet violence or if you will, an aesthetic violence. Isabel Carlos