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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
A Dragon King in Sleepy Pride Rock (2019)

A Dragon King in Sleepy Pride Rock (2019)

Anawana Haloba

Anawana Haloba often investigates the social, economic, ideological and cultural conditions of post-independence and the rapid shifts in subjectivity brought on by globalisation.

Knowledge Market: Speculative Collective  (2019)

Knowledge Market: Speculative Collective (2019)

Gudskul

Gudskul: Contemporary Art Collective and Ecosystem Studies is a public learning space established by three Jakarta-based art collectives: Grafis Huru Hara, ruangrupa and Serrum.

tagatanu’u (2017–ongoing)

tagatanu’u (2017–ongoing)

Léuli Eshrāghi

Léuli Eshrāghi is drawn to the embodied teachings that Indigenous histories call into becoming as realisations of ancestral, Earth-centred ways of being and knowing.

Spheres (2017)

Spheres (2017)

Rohini Devasher

Trained as a painter and printmaker, Rohini Devasher also works in sound, video and site-specific drawings.

Popular Extinctions (2019)

Popular Extinctions (2019)

Kawayan de Guia

Kawayan de Guia’s works offer ironic and sometimes comedic insight into sociopolitical issues in contemporary Philippine society.

Adriana Bustos: Various Works (2019)

Adriana Bustos: Various Works (2019)

Adriana Bustos

Adriana Bustos’ practice draws on ideas taken up in areas of anthropology, history, science, popular culture, fiction, biographical writings, and academic and intuitive knowledge.

Shiraz Bayjoo: Various Works (2012 - 2017)

Shiraz Bayjoo: Various Works (2012 - 2017)

Shiraz Bayjoo

Shiraz Bayjoo’s practice explores the social, political and historical conditions integral to Mauritian cultural identity and the wider Indian Ocean region.

Co-Prosperity #3 (2019)

Co-Prosperity #3 (2019)

Antariksa

As an artist and researcher, Antariksa has focused on the history of Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia during World War II, 1941-1945.

Munem Wasif: Various Works (2018–2019)

Munem Wasif: Various Works (2018–2019)

Munem Wasif

Primarily photography, video and sound, Munem Wasif’s works emerge from long-term engagement with places and their histories, particularly within the context of his home country of Bangladesh.

Kemang Wa Lehulere: Various Works (2015/2017)

Kemang Wa Lehulere: Various Works (2015/2017)

Kemang Wa Lehulere

In his sculptures, drawings and videos, Kemang Wa Lehulere often excavates the recent past that has receded from view or resides just below the surface of collective memory.

Anwar Jalal Shemza: Various Works (1961–1969)

Anwar Jalal Shemza: Various Works (1961–1969)

Anwar Jalal Shemza

Sharjah Biennial 14 presents 13 of Shemza’s works created between 1961 and 1969, surveying his diverse influences during this transitional period and the decisively modern diasporic perspective examined through the prism of both Islamic and Western aesthetics.

Healer (2019)

Healer (2019)

Pamela Rosenkranz

Pamela Rosenkranz often works with materials developed in the high-tech, scientific and pharmaceutical industries, examining how achievements in modern science and medicine transform an understanding of humanity and alter the relationship between nature and culture.

Marwan: Various Works (1965–2008)

Marwan: Various Works (1965–2008)

Marwan

Marwan Kassab Bachi, most commonly known as MARWAN, was a pioneering painter and educator, whose life and work bridged continents and cultures.

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