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Rain Room, Sharjah

Sharjah Art Foundation presents Rain Room for the first time in the Middle East. The installation is permanently sited in Al Majarrah, Sharjah.

Random International
2012

Rain Room, Sharjah

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The Interview

These opening lines introduce The Interview, an indirect narration of the real-life story of Dr Abdul Nabi, an Iraqi doctor who came to the United States in 2008.

Işıl Eğrikavuk
2008

The Interview
(2023) عن...

(2023) عن...

Malek Gnaoui and Ala Eddine Slim

Combining sound, light, costumes and objects from a prison complex, the site-specific installation is derived from an archive of oral histories from the Tunisian prison system.

Freedom of Movement (2017)

Freedom of Movement (2017)

Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani

Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani investigate collective memory and perceptions of social and political turmoil through the lens of transitory public spaces and the built environment.

A Reverse Retrogress: Scene 1 (2013)

A Reverse Retrogress: Scene 1 (2013)

Mary Sibande

Mary Sibande engages counter- historical narratives and the language of dress to animate the stories of South African women and critique western imperialist depictions of their lives.

The Wake (2021)

The Wake (2021)

The Living and the Dead Ensemble

The Living and the Dead Ensemble creates narratives interweaving Haiti’s present with its mythical, colourful and often forgotten histories.

Cultural Exchange Rate (2019) and other works

Cultural Exchange Rate (2019) and other works

Tania El Khoury

Tania El Khoury is a live performance artist whose works engage the audience in close encounters with narratives drawn from the political realities of migration, displacement and state violence.

Exile Is a Hard Job (1983–ongoing)

Exile Is a Hard Job (1983–ongoing)

Nil Yalter

Nil Yalter’s works offer a compelling feminist viewpoint on the socioeconomic conditions that affect migratory populations and female labourers.

Uprooted (2020–2022)

Uprooted (2020–2022)

Doris Salcedo

Known for her sociopolitical sculptural work, Doris Salcedo’s multidisciplinary practice centres around themes of memory, loss and violence as experienced by the exiled and traumatised.

The Tide Country (2022)

The Tide Country (2022)

Pak Khawateen Painting Club

Pak Khawateen Painting Club is a collective whose provocateurs investigate colossal hydrological engineering structures on the Indus River with transnational implications, including Indigenous displacement, land salinisation and ecological decline.

Porcelain Souls (2018) and other works

Porcelain Souls (2018) and other works

Inuuteq Storch

Combining autoethnographic methodologies with archival portraits, Inuuteq Storch’s photographic practice bridges personal and universal visions of Greenland.

Heliotrope (2023)

Heliotrope (2023)

Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno creates singular, multisensory viewer experiences characterised by their unique spatiotemporal dynamics, allowing for open-ended, highly participatory explorations.

Arrancar los ojos (2023) and other works

Arrancar los ojos (2023) and other works

Gabriela Golder

Gabriela Golder examines the intersection between labour and memory from a wide variety of sources— political, mythical and medical—to highlight the aftereffect of violent state actions.

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