Projects

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's technique consists of a distinctive compositional approach informed by light, leading to examinations of colours and shadows that translate into cities and people

SB12 presents examples of Choucair’s ‘Duals’, ‘Modules’ and ‘Interforms’, works that recall the autonomous stanzas of Islamic poetry, Sufi longing for divine unity and the biological structure of matter.

Rodney McMillian’s multimedia work addresses themes of economic inequity and identity in contemporary American society.

Unnikrishnan’s paintings and carvings on brick record intimate scenes of life in the city and anecdotes of his relations with people and objects.

Fahrelnissa Zeid practice is marked by her monumental abstract works from the late 1940s–60s influenced by stained glass and mosaic design

Through painting, Etel Adnan conveys her private relationship to nature as living subject, each painting an ‘expression of an encounter’.

Julie Mehretu’s new body of work offers a more contemplative and pared-down response in the aftermath of that moment as she probes deeper into the visual language of abstraction.

Mohammed Kazem employs the same technique to scratch a series of shapes on paper that refer to the angles created when opening doors

Scratches on Paper (2011–14) demonstrates this technique to render sound and light in a deeply subjective way – a personal chronicle writ in bumps and depressions and left subject to the viewer’s contemplation.

Rheim Alkadhi’s new commission, Communications From the Field of Contact (Each Hair is a Tongue) (2015), attempts to provide a framework by which to contemplate new cultural intimacies.

Rheim Alkadhi’s engagement in an expansive visual practice revolves around narrative pictures, objects and social interactions.

Byron Kim’s abstract conceptual practice includes a series of paintings that depict the night sky.

Sky Blue Flag (2015) is an installation by Byron Kim placed along the Corniche of Sharjah, a site where people of many nations congregate for commerce.

Byron Kim has long distilled his approach to life and art in a conceptual practice marked by studies of colour and abstraction.

In this self-choreographed solo performance, Linyekula moves, narrates and sings to original music composed by Obilo drummers and guitarist Flamme Kapaya.