Collection

For The Trespassers, Mariam Ghani hired Afghan-Americans who had previously worked as translators for the US military in Afghanistan, translating documents related to US military prisons in Afghanistan.

Translated from Arabic, the phrase reads ‘The wider the vision, the narrower the statement’ and is by the Sufi writer Al Naffari.

This work is inspired from childrens’ stories of their dreams about what they could be and what they hope to receive from the world.

Videos documenting an individual’s intention to carry out a suicide operation have become a powerful visual presence in the global media.

A leading figure in the ‘second generation’ of contemporary artists in the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed Kazem has developed an artistic practice that encompasses video, photography and performance.

Nadia Kaabi-Linke is concerned with notions of memory and the ways in which geography and politics inform and circumscribe identity.

Under-Writing Beirut - Mathaf looks at historically or personally significant locations within the city’s present, finding in them access to other temporalities.

The 81 slides in Unsettled Objects (1968–1969), images of artefacts from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford that are shown by a carousel projector, make visible how European and Western museums present and store their so-called ethnological and anthropological ‘treasures’

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian creates work with a strong connection to the history of Iranian reverse glass and mirror mosaics, a craft traditionally passed on from father to son.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian creates work with a strong connection to the history of Iranian reverse glass and mirror mosaics, a craft traditionally passed on from father to son.

2012 painting conveying the artist's private relationship to nature.