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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
Cartographic Project

Cartographic Project

Tiffany Chung
1780—2012

Colourful lines and dots are then added, using ink and oil, which are coded as in a map’s legend to indicate important information that is hidden.

Infinite Rock

Infinite Rock

Thilo Frank
2013

Infinite Rock is a disturbing caesura in the absolute brightness of the Arabian urban fabric: a dark volume that absorbs all light, creating a visual current that draws in the visitor.

Situation leading to a courtyard (address rehearsal)

Situation leading to a courtyard (address rehearsal)

Tamar Guimarães, Kasper Akhoj
2013

The head of the Centre of Gulf Studies advised that questions regarding 'Mascalat' have been raised previously, but unfortunately no information or resources have been compiled or published regarding this topic aside from what you have mentioned.

The Bank

The Bank

SUPERFLEX
2013

The Bank is an urban currency converter of such personal memories and stories, bringing great profit to Bank Street.

How to Read an Image/Text Past a Surpassing Disaster?

How to Read an Image/Text Past a Surpassing Disaster?

Jalal Toufic
2010

'How to Read an Image Past a Surpassing Disaster?, is composed of six images: five photographs as well as a printout (that includes two photos) of the Ottoman translation of the first paragraph of my book The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster.'
-Jalal Toufic

Xiangqian’s Museum I

Xiangqian’s Museum I

Hu Xiangqian
2010

Xiangqian’s Museum is a fictional institution founded by the artist, comprising an ongoing collection of works that he has encountered or heard about.

Sirens of Chrome

Sirens of Chrome

Jesper Just
2010

Shot in downtown Detroit, Sirens of Chrome follows four women in a car as they drive through deserted city streets.

No Man Is an Island

No Man Is an Island

Jesper Just
2002

In Just’s earliest video, made when he was a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, an older man begins dancing in a public square, oblivious to the laughing gawkers who pass by.

Attempt 137 to Map the Drive

Attempt 137 to Map the Drive

Graziella Rizkallah Toufic and Jalal Toufic
2011

Keywords: videotaped in Beirut’s central district circa 2000; Toufican ruins; labyrinth; drive (also in the sense of Trieb).

The Unfinished Conversation

The Unfinished Conversation

John Akomfrah
2012

The Unfinished Conversation is an exercise in 'spectropoetics', a revisitation of the ghosts that haunt a life.

The Goodness Regime

The Goodness Regime

Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle
2011—2013

The Goodness Regime is a creative documentary exploring the image of Norway as a country of peace and benevolence.

Myths and Legends Room – The Mural

Myths and Legends Room – The Mural

Hala Elkoussy
2010

Myths and Legends Room – The Mural looks at the genre of large-scale wall painting as commemorative propaganda art, making reference to murals and dioramas that celebrate the history of modern Egypt.

Mappa Mundi ca. 1300

Mappa Mundi ca. 1300

Jumana Manna
2012

This mosaic work is an abstraction of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, a world map belonging to a pre-scientific, Christian cartographic tradition that placed Jerusalem at the centre.

Peace is Not What You Believe

Peace is Not What You Believe

Kamarstudios
2012—2013

The music in Peace is Not What You Believe is intended to create sensory and spatial effects that, in turn, may lead to the creative resurgence of memory and new imaginings.

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