Collection

Filmed in an area close to Liu Wei’s studio on the outskirts of Beijing, the artist documents the ‘new work’ of local farmers who have been forced to comb through suburban domestic refuse everyday in exchange for meager compensation to supplement their falling agricultural income.

When I first came across a picture of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, I noticed how much it resembles the Islamic breaking of the fast – known as Iftar in Arabic – during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

In their collaboratively-produced video installations, Muratbek Djumaliev and Gulnara Kasmalieva explore the contemporary political and economic realities of former Soviet States such as their homeland of Kyrgyzstan.

Kurchatov 22, a five-channel video installation with surround sound, was shot in the heartland of the former 'Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union', formally known to insiders by its code name Kurchatov 22 , a secret territory in the North West of Kazakhstan, established under the strict control of Joseph Stalin and L. (Lavrenti) Beria in 1948.

Lydda Airport is an installation with short film that takes place at the eponymous location sometime in the mid to late 1930s and a sculpture.

In Männergeschichten, or Male Stories, a man sits for a shave in a Turkish barbershop. A caged bird chirps and local music plays in the background.

Bouchra Khalili’s Mapping Journeys project was unveiled in its finalised form for the first time at Sharjah Biennial 10.

Bouchra Khalili’s Mapping Journeys project was unveiled in its finalised form for the first time at Sharjah Biennial 10.

Rizzi follows second-generation emigrants in Paris as they grapple with feelings of displacement.

Focusing on Sharjah’s location on the Strait of Hormuz, and the area’s historical power tensions, this animated video explores ideas of control and conflict.

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.

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

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.

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.