Projects

In the photographs, you see the caretaker watching the faded screen as I project my drawings upon it, transforming the space and bringing the cinema back to life.

In the photographs, you see the caretaker watching the faded screen as I project my drawings upon it, transforming the space and bringing the cinema back to life.

It is so real
A remote and intimate world

A library of 100 books written anonymously or under pseudonyms. Over the years and throughout the world, authors have written under pseudonyms or anonymously.

I invite the Biennial audience onto an abra, a traditional boat that travels across Sharjah Creek.

I have always believed that calligraphy can have a dynamic effect on the way we see and understand the world.

Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex) tells the story of Simon Fujiwara’s attempt to restage and photograph a lost picture of his mother held in the arms of a Lebanese boyfriend.

This project involves creating two spaces that are elemental and sensorial, based on the needs of everyday life.

Gamsutl is an ancient Avarian settlement carved out of the mountains in Dagestan.

Performances often exist only in closed institutional spaces, never reaching a secondary audience.

'Portrait of Avar asks if one is born with a certain identity, or if we can choose how to identify ourselves.'
Taus Makhacheva

'In this video, I constantly roll in and out of an old Dagestani carpet, known as a kilim. The carpet’s design symbolises the Garden of Eden.'
Taus Makhacheva

Wang Jianwei’s work is inspired by Slavoj Žižek’s book of the same name – a quote from the 1999 film The Matrix that echoes Jean Beaudrillard’s influential treatise Simulacra and Simulation.

Dictums 10:120 is a multi-part project that involves the composition and performance of a qawwali song.