Sound cells: FRIDAYS

Sound cells: FRIDAYS

Magdi Mostafa

Sound cells : FRIDAYS, the second installation in Magdi Mostafa’s '(sound cells)' series, is an abstract evocation of the artist’s Cairo neighbourhood, Ardellawa, as heard on Fridays – a day of prayer, but also a day of household chores and cleaning.

Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex)

Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex)

Simon Fujiwara

Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex) tells the story of Simon Fujiwara’s attempt to restage and photograph a lost picture of his mother held in the arms of a Lebanese boyfriend.

The Fourth Stage

The Fourth Stage

Ahmad Ghossein

Ahmad Ghossein’s work The Fourth Stage (2015) weaves a complex and unlikely union of illusion and myth between three worlds of which he is concurrently a part: cinema, magic and the changing landscape of southern Lebanon.

The Goodness Regime

The Goodness Regime

Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

The Goodness Regime is a creative documentary exploring the image of Norway as a country of peace and benevolence.

The Heart of Sharjah Project 2025

The Heart of Sharjah Project 2025

Tiffany Chung

In her meticulously detailed cartographic drawings, Tiffany Chung uses bright, cheerful colours that belie her often serious and traumatic subject matter: the aftermath of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods and the psychic and physical traces of war and political violence.

The Landing (2019)

The Landing (2019)

Akram Zaatari

Akram Zaatari’s videos, films, photographic installations and publications excavate past landscapes and reorganise the finds in his own present narratives.

The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich

The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich

Hiroyuki Masuyama

For Sharjah Biennial 9, Hiroyuki Masuyama recreated a series of lost paintings by 19th century German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich.

The Majlis

The Majlis

Lamya Gargash

Gargash’s photographic works use interiors as frameworks for revealing culture and identity in the UAE in the context of rapid exterior change, while also documenting domestic interiors as they are now.

The Routes of WG Palgrave Through the Gulf 1862–1863

The Routes of WG Palgrave Through the Gulf 1862–1863

Tiffany Chung

In her meticulously detailed cartographic drawings, Tiffany Chung uses bright, cheerful colours that belie her often serious and traumatic subject matter: the aftermath of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods and the psychic and physical traces of war and political violence.

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