Collection

Peace is not what you believe explores how we hear and understand the world and attempts to open a new space where we can move freely.

Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai’s work Plate It with Silver (2015) is a video set along the northern and southern shores of the Strait of Hormuz referencing peripheral relations to the waters from minor economic ventures like smuggling to possession-cult practices throughout the region.

The Power Station series records the interiors of two neighbour buildings, a power station and a residence.

During her research on the Cold War, Prajakta Potnis came across an ideological debate between US Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the grand opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959), organised to promote labour-saving machinery and promote relations between the two countries.

In 2007 the ICA invited 26 artists from around the world to make proposals for a memorial to the Iraq War.

Renowned for his large-format colour photographs charting themes of globalised society at work and play, Andreas Gursky’s production employs the latest digital technology to capture and refine an astounding compilation of detail on an epic scale.

Against this historical backdrop, Reincarnation (2015) revolves around a community of Korean women of a similar generation who have lived in Iran for more than forty years.

Larsen’s work for Sharjah Biennial 9 is a video in which Indian workers based in Sharjah and their families in India are projected onto adjacent screens.

A tribute to the Caucasian myth of Prometheus, known as Abriskil to the Abkhaz and Amiran to the Ossetians.

Almagul Menlibayeva and Bahar Behbahani explore the dialogue between two ancient cultures that border the Caspian Sea on the crossroads of the Middle East and Central Asia.