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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
Postage Stamp UAE

Postage Stamp UAE

Khaled Jarrar
2013

The Postage Stamp series, 2011–2013, projects a vision of a free and independent Palestinian homeland.

Falling Rope

Falling Rope

Haroon Mirza
2013

Falling Rope was initially inspired by a 1907 photograph by Herbert Ponting of Shiraito (literally, 'falling string') Waterfall, in Fujinomiya, with Mount Fuji in the background.

Theme Park

Theme Park

Miki Kasahara
2011—2012

The three characters featured in this work, Puruto-kun, Natriumko-chan and Monju-kun, are mascots that were created for publicity purposes many years ago by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

The Prediction Machine

The Prediction Machine

Mohamed Ali Fadlabi
2013

The Prediction Machine asks questions about Western norms in art, the meaning of Europe today and the persistent division between what’s designated the West and the non-West.

Orientations

Orientations

Ismaïl Bahri
2010

The camera follows a hand carefully carrying a glass filled with ink through the streets of Tunis.

‘Shazdeh’s Garden’ Series

‘Shazdeh’s Garden’ Series

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
2009—2010

The works seek to capture the forms of nature in glass and to express the spirit of the garden itself.

Beirut, Autopsy of a City

Beirut, Autopsy of a City

Lamia Joreige
2010

This project proposes possible reconciliations between the task of the archaeologist and that of the poet, between modern images and ancient texts.

The Story Converter

The Story Converter

Nasir Nasrallah
2012—2013

Exhibition visitors are invited to write something personal on cards hidden inside a custom-made box, unable to see as they write.

Session

Session

Nevin Aladağ
2013

Session is a video triptych shot in Sharjah’s urban areas and desert.

Pattern Matching

Pattern Matching

Nevin Aladağ
2012

Fragments of hand-woven and industrially produced carpets from around the world.

City Language III

City Language III

Nevin Aladağ
2009

City Language III is the third part of a video trilogy conceived as an experimental sound portrait of Istanbul.

Lowrider Bellydance

Lowrider Bellydance

Nevin Aladağ
2004

Low-rider cars, which originated during the late 1940s in Mexican-American communities, have a hydraulic suspension system that allows them to change height, appearing to jump or dance.

Familie Tezcan

Familie Tezcan

Nevin Aladağ
2001

Familie Tezcan is a video portrait of a German family of Turkish origin breakdancing and singing in four different languages – Turkish, Arabic, German and English

OASES

OASES

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
2013

This project is inspired by traditional arish architecture – an ancient method of construction using dried palm leaves – and the oasis, an anomaly in the desert where water is found and vegetation carefully cultivated.

Your Embodied Garden

Your Embodied Garden

Olafur Eliasson
2013

The aim of the journey was to explore these traditional gardens as models for physical movement, duration, flow and rhythm.

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