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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
Ride the Caspian

Ride the Caspian

Almagul Menlibayeva and Bahar Behbahani
2011

Almagul Menlibayeva and Bahar Behbahani explore the dialogue between two ancient cultures that border the Caspian Sea on the crossroads of the Middle East and Central Asia.

A Love Story

A Love Story

Amar Kanwar
2010

A Love Story is a miniature narrative in four acts where time becomes fluid as the image is distilled to its inner self.

21 Assemblages on paper

21 Assemblages on paper

Bahman Mohassess
1989—2010

He began culling images from newspapers and magazines, instinctively juxtaposing them.

Sharjah CityMap and Sharjah InfoCart

Sharjah CityMap and Sharjah InfoCart

Alexis Bhagat and Lize Mogel
2011

The Sharjah InfoCart is a mobile kiosk that traveled to malls and outdoor public places in Sharjah including Al Qasba, Sahara Centre Mall, Rolla, and Al-Jubail bus station, during January and February 2011.

Javad

Javad

Bahman Kiarostami
2011

Javad Yassari rose to fame in the late 1970s in Lalezar, Tehran’s club strip where he sang in smoky theatres and cabarets.

Maportaliche / It Has No Importance

Maportaliche / It Has No Importance

Mustapha Benfodil
2011

Maportaliche/ It has no importance is a mixed-media installation of a patchwork of words, texts, short descriptions in languages from the artist’s lived socio-linguistic reality in Algeria as well as from his world of literary and theatrical production.

The Simple Affair that Moved the World

The Simple Affair that Moved the World

Anna Boghiguian
2010—2011

Anna Boghiguian’s project is about migration, whether of goods and ideas or the movement of people in global labour markets.

A Typology of Houses

A Typology of Houses

Hala Al-Ani
2010

A Typology of Houses is a descriptive record of culture made manifest in the building vernacular of residential housing in Dubai.

Tagh’out

Tagh’out

Ammar Bouras
2011

'In the eyes of the Islamist terrorists I belonged to the hateful category of the tagh’out' – a traitor to the cause of God.

Le Jardin de Ma Mère (My Mother’s Garden)

Le Jardin de Ma Mère (My Mother’s Garden)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2007

Apichatpong Weerasethakul produced Le Jardin de Ma Mère in response to an invitation by Eric Troncy, who, with Victoire de Castellane, designed a collection of jewelry for Christian Dior.

A Dream of Warsaw

A Dream of Warsaw

Artur Żmijewski
2005

A Dream of Warsaw documents the work leading up to an exhibition by Polish architect, urban planner, theorist and teacher Oskar Hansen.

The Book of Profanation

The Book of Profanation

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
2011

The Book of Profanation, exhibited here for the first time as an experimental prototype, is a compendium of recent projects by Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR).

The Ordinary and Three of its Products

The Ordinary and Three of its Products

Doug Ashford
2010

Doug Ashford is a New York based artist, teacher and writer whose work considers exhibition, display and other social production as formal models for speculation and reconsideration.

Wanted (Al-Hareb)

Wanted (Al-Hareb)

Ali Essafi
2011

In the 1970s, Moroccan schoolboys and students dreamed of freedom and democracy.

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