Projects

Founded a decade ago, Metahaven is a research-driven design studio, whose work spans the fields of art, design, filmmaking, teaching, publishing.

Massinissa Selmani is a consummate chronicler of everyday absurdities.

Presented in SAF’s Al Hamriyah Studios, located on Sharjah’s northern coast, Marwan Rechmaoui’s SB13 commission Untitled 12 (2017)

Marwan Rechmaoui approaches the methodical study of cartography and urbanisation through works tempered by sensuality and wit.

Mario García Torres examines processes of re-enactment and restaging in his interrogations of singular authorship, presence and responsibility.

Mariana Castillo Deball explores the ideologically constructed conditions under which artefacts appear in today’s culture as well as the role that these objects play in the construction of identity, culture and history.

Maria Thereza Alves is best known for her projects that encompass ecology, indigenous knowledge and the enduring impact of imperial conquest.

For her SB13 commission, Boundary Work (2017), Mandy El-Sayegh assembles new and previous works, presenting a concatenation of materials.

Over the past few years, Mahmoud Khaled has reassessed the formal and technical concerns of his educational background in academic painting through the lens of a conceptual practice.

In Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s practice, his pursuit of truth is rooted in a rigorous and obsessive exploration of sound.

There never was a script for And the living is easy (2014), Lamia Joreige’s feature film that was shot in Beirut intermittently over an eight-month period in 2011 and developed through improvisation with mostly non-professional actors.

For some years, Kader Attia has researched the concept of reappropriation. He found the term had been in use since 1840, when it was popularised by Pierre Joseph Proudhon, a French politician and influential theorist of anarchism.

Jorinde Voigt’s practice is shaped by everyday acts and interaction with her environment as well as a steady stream of reading.

Jonathas de Andrade’s work often explores how collective codes of conduct and organisation impinge and shape other modes of being.

Artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman explores the paradoxes of modernity.