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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
Scytale

Scytale

Guillaume Cassar
2011

The Spartan scytale is the communication tool that does the most harm to the universality of language.

25 paintings and works on paper

25 paintings and works on paper

Fateh Moudarres
1962—1998

Fateh Moudarres is widely considered to be one of Syria and the Arab world’s seminal modernists.

Six Moments in 1967 and Some of its Bodies

Six Moments in 1967 and Some of its Bodies

Doug Ashford
2010—2011

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.

Videograms of a Revolution

Videograms of a Revolution

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică
1993

Videograms of a Revolution assembles video footage of the Romanian revolution recorded at the end of 1989.

Moderate Enlightenment

Moderate Enlightenment

Imran Qureshi
2006—2009

Imran Qureshi painted this series of portraits when he realised that after 9/11, the world insisted on segregating religious people.

Calligraphie

Calligraphie

Hans Haacke
1989—2011

In 1989, Hans Haacke was invited to participate in a competition for a work celebrating the bicentennial of the Assemblée Nationale.

Face Scripting: What Did the Building See?

Face Scripting: What Did the Building See?

Shumon Basar, Eyal Weizman,
Jane and Louise Wilson
2011

Face Scripting is a story, that ghosts the Dubai Police’s forensic film. It rehearses the generic architectural syntax of hotel rooms, corridors and lobbies – those thresholds of blank transition.

9 Etchings and Mixed Media

9 Etchings and Mixed Media

Ziad Dalloul
1999

Considered among the most accomplished Arab painters and printmakers, Ziad Dalloul has been captivated with natures mortes, or still life, noting that the English word describes his practice more faithfully than the French one.

School Girls

School Girls

Shohreh Mehran
2009—ongoing

An increasingly established painter in the Iranian scene, Shohreh Mehran’s practice subverts representation and seeing.

Le Bled (Buildings in a Field)

Le Bled (Buildings in a Field)

Jem Cohen and Luc Sante
2009

Jem Cohen and Luc Sante were invited to Tangier to collaborate on a short film in a city where neither had ever been.

Burj Khalifa

Burj Khalifa

Ziad Antar
2010

Shot with Black and White Negra 120 negative expired in 1976

The Telephone Books (or the Recipe Books) fig. 1-8

The Telephone Books (or the Recipe Books) fig. 1-8

Yto Barrada
2010

Notebooks of Z.A.B. She was my grandmother and was illiterate. She gave birth to twelve children, of whom ten lived. To keep in touch with them all she made herself a telephone directory from an old recipe notebook...

The Rule of Law

The Rule of Law

Raffie Davtian
2011

This sculpture is a reproduction of an imaginary torso of a spiritual substant the homos-angelus - an angel whose anatomical skeleton resembles a multi-winged human being.

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