Collection

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.

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

2013 painting conveying the artist's private relationship to nature.

Unnikrishnan’s paintings and carvings on brick record intimate scenes of life in the city and anecdotes of his relations with people and objects.

The formal and aesthetic decisions in this work are a direct response to Florido’s experience in Sharjah.

The formal and aesthetic decisions in this work are a direct response to Florido’s experience in Sharjah.