Projects

The Wagah border crossing between India and Pakistan is the site of a daily military ceremony known as the 'lowering of the flags'.

In Women’s Circles the artist worked with a dancer to perform a series of movements; a photographer has captured each movement as a series of frozen moments.

This piece came to me when I was in the Sharjah desert. I saw a mirage that I couldn’t understand.

Vayu-Vata is part of an ongoing series of artworks by Gabriel Lester that transpose theatrical and cinematic language into architecture, installation, music, film collage, performance and photography.

sound cells : FRIDAYS, the second installation in Magdi Mostafa’s '(sound cells)' series, is an abstract evocation of the artist’s Cairo neighbourhood, Ardellawa, as heard on Fridays – a day of prayer, but also a day of household chores and cleaning.

Over the past decade Walid Raad has been fascinated by the emergence of new art museums, galleries, schools and cultural foundations in Arab cities, by way of which the makers, sponsors, consumers, forms and histories of Arab art are becoming more and more visible.

From 17th century Sarmatism, the dominant ideology amongst the Polish nobility, to monobrows in America and the Green movement in presentday Iran, Friendship of Nations traces an ambitious if unlikely genealogy between Iran and Poland.

A fog sculpture in a courtyard, composition invites bright sunlight to mingle in a mystical, cloudlike space.

If a line of kids leaves Europe and heads towards Morocco, and a line of kids leaves Africa and heads towards Spain, will the two lines meet in the chimera of the horizon?

The video and the book tell three stories inspired by his daily life, describing alleged conspiracies and attempting to draw in the viewer.

In this video, Sarah Abu Abdallah is seen painting the shell of a wrecked car with light pink paint, a gesture of defiance against Saudi Arabia’s prohibition on women drivers, which makes mobility the exclusive privilege of men.

The title of this project is Heritages; the plural form underlines the different layers present, since the project materialises a bridge between tradition and modernity in the context of the United Arab Emirates today.

Oil workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain.

Desert of Pharan documents the rapid development of Islam’s holiest city, takes its title from the ancient name of the region surrounding Makkah (Mecca).