Projects

Arcadia (2011) is an installation comprising eleven large paintings, two of which are on exhibit at Al Hamriyah Studios.

Daniele Genadry's work examines how the natural landscape presents ruptures in seeing and how light assumes a material form through surface, matter and subject.

Anarcheology (2014) delves into Christoph Keller’s time spent in the Amazon and his thinking about archaeology.

In Bait Al Serkal, a marble block has been cut down to a slab, which bears the painstaking labour that has made it a kind of altar for handcrafted sculptures taking the form of jewellery.

No Shooting Stars film drifts from one dreamlike scene to another, with only a tangential association with its organic narrative structure.

Comprised of maps that were broadcast on French television news reports about Turkey, Heure de Paris: ‘The map and the territory’ (2015) is presented as a series of seventeen digital prints.

Through an expansive exploration of sound, The Great Silence (2014) examines the irreducible relationships between the living and nonliving, human and animal, and terrestrial and cosmic.

Investigating the meaning of the archetypal image of the cave, Neither the sky nor the earth (2017) appears to consume the architecture of its own exhibition space.

SB13 pays homage to Ali Jabri in a presentation focusing on his lesser-known collage works.

Abdullah Al Saadi presents an array of scrolls and drawings that were produced during two related trips he has collectively titled The Purl and Silk Journey (2015).

Envelope (2017) is a decommissioned hot air balloon that is occasionally inflated with buoyant air.

Kids, Cats and 1 Dog (2016) is a text work installed on the Gallery 1 rooftop, only legible to passing airplanes, helicopters and drones.

Drawing on Easterling’s book Extrastatecraft (2014), A.S.T. collectively examines how ‘infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the space of everyday lives.’

Wael Shawky continues his exploration and interrogation of historical narratives in The Song of Roland: The Arabic Version (2017).

Naeem Mohaiemen presents his first fiction film Tripoli Cancelled (2017) at documenta 14, co-commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and Art Jameel.