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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
Mabini Art Project: 100 Paintings

Mabini Art Project: 100 Paintings

Alfredo Aquilizan and Isabel Aquilizan
2011

Mabini art is a genre of conservative Filipino landscape painting associated with lowbrow commercial galleries that cater to the tourist market.

The Sovereign Forest

The Sovereign Forest

Amar Kanwar
2012

The Sovereign Forest attempts to reopen discussion and initiate a creative response to our understanding of crime, politics, human rights and ecology.

Lunda Bazaar (Secondhand Clothing Market)

Lunda Bazaar (Secondhand Clothing Market)

Basir Mahmood
2010

This study of the secondhand-clothing market in Lahore reveals the transformation that occurs when a garment moves from one body to another, and from one culture to another, in a process of memory and change.

Neoliberalism(s)

Neoliberalism(s)

Burak Arikan
2013

This work uses a questionnaire and mapping software to capture the relationships between expatriates’ subjective encounters with neoliberalism in the UAE and in their home countries.

Monovacation

Monovacation

Burak Arikan
2013

Monovacation consists of three parts: the original tourism commercials that were used as data, presented in grid form; a digital print of the network map of tags created by content analysis of each clip; and a generic video of a vacation as edited via network analysis.

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

CAMP 2009—2013

A wooden construction built by a few people in coastal Gujarat can pass through or touch a remarkable number of ideologies, winds, pirates and navies, sanctions and treasures, fears and wants, and forms of boredom and play.

We’ll See How All Reverberates

We’ll See How All Reverberates

Carlos Amorales
2012

This installation is based on the organic shapes of Alexander Calder’s mobiles, but in place of abstract forms, thirty-five different cymbals are suspended from the ceiling

Orellana’s Fantasia

Orellana’s Fantasia

Carlos Amorales
2013

Fascinated by this unusual take on electronic music, Carlos Amorales and musician Julian Léde commissioned Orellana to create his own version of the score for a segment of Walt Disney’s classic animated film Fantasia (1940).

Random Rolling Cylinder

Random Rolling Cylinder

Carsten Höller
2013

Random Rolling Cylinder is an installation consisting of a cylindrical corridor with a walkway that leads through its central axis.

In the Courtyard

In the Courtyard

Cevdet Erek
2002

In the Courtyard is composed from video and sound recorded (by Cevdet Erek and Muhittin Bilginer) at this site.

Naqshbandi Greenacre Engagement

Naqshbandi Greenacre Engagement

Khaled Sabsabi
2010

Naqshbandi Greenacre Engagement provides a view into the communal gatherings of the Greenacre Order in western Sydney, Australia.

Hair Dance, Lanyu Seascapes, Shi Na Paradna

Hair Dance, Lanyu Seascapes, Shi Na Paradna

Charwei Tsai
2012

Tsai continues her exploration of the relationship between nature and spirituality through an examination of the Tao tribe from the Lanyu Island of Taiwan.

Leitmotiv

Leitmotiv

Cinthia Marcelle
2011

An empty area is covered in an instant by currents of water that come from every side, suggesting the beginning of a flood.

Tablas series

Tablas series

Eduardo Terrazas
1970—1985

The works employ a Huichol yarn-painting technique, in which coloured wool is applied to wood panels covered with Campeche wax, to create compositions influenced by abstract painting, architecture and design.

Terra Incognita, et cetera

Terra Incognita, et cetera

Tintin Wulia
2009

Terra Incognita, et cetera is an exercise in collective painting and a spin on territorial marking.

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