Projects

Their Dreams is a work inspired from children's stories of their dreams about what they could be and what they hope to receive from the world.

An ode to the thousands struggling for democracy in Burma.

Portraits of the artists shot in studios in Beirut, Damascus, Cairo and Sharjah.

The Mapping Journey Project is a mixed-media installation that combines eight video works and a printed map.

The Neighbour Before the House is a series of video probes into the landscape of East Jerusalem.

The project of a 3D (stereoscopic) film by Armin Linke and Francesco Mattuzzi completed with the visual effects created by Francesco Siddi refers to the 19th century invention of stereoscopic technology.

Michael Bears’s illustrations, cast in the vocabulary of graphic novels are a map of DAAR’s networks and origin of projects.

The installation explores the thickness of the boundaries, and follows it along edges of villages and towns, across fields, orchards, roads, gardens, kindergartens, fences, terraces, homes, public buildings, a football stadium, a mosque and finally a large recently built castle.

Each painting in the installation You and Me (constructing identity) plays in an autoreferential cycle that constantly hovers between the perception of the part and the whole.

Figures intertwine, almost floating, while recurring images of faces recall Zayat’s other endeavour – conservator and restorer of orthodox icons.

Lydda Airport is a short film named after the facility built in 1930 in what was then known as the British Mandate of Palestine.

Camar Cande’s Journey chronicles a trek Abdullah Al Saadi took through the northern region of the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

In Aisha Khalid’s Pattern to Follow series, the artist devises a contemporary approach to painting classical Islamic geometric patterns.

Through Aisha Khalid’s labour-intensive process of inserting pins through a layer of two shawls, Kashmiri Shawl inspires contradictory responses.