Projects

Chalks and Pins and Charcoal make up a sort of tapestry made from multicoloured pieces of chalk and black charcoal lined up in horizontal and diagonal rows.

This collection of games includes new games as well as variations on existing ones. For every game, there is a poster – a visual poem that also works as a score/instruction/recipe for how to play.

The process of writing Chinese ideograms, which originated over two thousand years ago, is governed by strict rules.

In The Dislocation of Degree Zero, Raqs Media Collective transforms found aerial footage of desert landscapes in the United Arab Emirates into a moving inscription.

Snapshot is a collective reconstruction of news stories in the United Arab Emirates over the last four decades.

The forest of the Delhi Ridge marks the end of the Aravalli Range, the billion-and-a-half-year-old mountain chain that extends along the western coast of India.

The earth is no longer mere land: it is the sociopolitical terrain of our species.

Runa Islam counterpoints two lines of enquiry for Sharjah Biennial 11, utilising the exhibition space as a stage on which to culminate one series of works, and simultaneously to start another.

We propose a temporary pavilion for Calligraphy Square in Sharjah, consisting of transparent bubbles.

Using the flag as a recurrent motif throughout her work, Sara Rahbar explores ideas of nationalism, ideology and belonging.

This project involves the construction of a symbolic garden using objects found in storage at Sharjah’s Department of Culture and Information.

The installation Silence Spins is an infinite aural tearoom, seemingly without walls. This is accomplished by building walls that do not reflect sound – or at least, do so at a barely perceptible level.

The long-term project , YOVO! YOVO!’s first collective work, draws on the theorist Timothy Mitchell’s concept of 'enframing'.

A film crew disappears in Sharjah while scouting locations for a film based on Ghassan Kanafani’s 1963 novel, Men in the Sun.

Focusing on Sharjah’s location on the Strait of Hormuz, and the area’s historical power tensions, this animated video explores ideas of control and conflict.