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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
Celebrations of the Absents

Celebrations of the Absents

Ziad Dalloul
2010

Ziad Dalloul's earthen palette, recalling memories of the lands of his childhood in Syria and Algeria, is the artist’s spiritual reckoning of thinking the past in the present.

Subplot

Subplot

Tom Molloy
2008

Two hundred and thirty five individual drawings depicting the pages of George Orwell’s novel 1984.

Who Killed the King of Disco

Who Killed the King of Disco

Raed Yassin
2010—2011

Who Killed the King of Disco is a multi-media installation exploring the conflicting facts and context surrounding the artist’s father’s murder.

Sculptures in clay and bronze

Sculptures in clay and bronze

Simone Fattal
2006—2011

Simone Fattal’s practice has always been informed by war and its historical contexts.

Eleven Views of Mount Ararat

Eleven Views of Mount Ararat

Gilbert Hage
2009

Gilbert Hage’s Eleven Views of Mount Ararat appears in the context of various houses of members of the Armenian community of Lebanon.

African Independence and Palestine

African Independence and Palestine

Newsreel Archives of Soviet Television
1961—1971

Two thirty-five-minute videos assemble sequences borrowed from news reports from the archives of Soviet Television in the last century.

Mushrooms and Fig Leaves

Mushrooms and Fig Leaves

Omar Rajeh
2011

In this new creation, Omar Rajeh looks into the body; more precisely, he attempts to deconstruct, alienate, re-discover, and question our perception of the human body system today.

Vicarious Dreams

Vicarious Dreams

Hatem Imam
2010—2011

Vicarious Dreams consists of seven landscapes based on photographs of construction digs that Hatem Imam has been taking in Beirut since 2009.

La Vigie (work in progress)

La Vigie (work in progress)

Jean-Luc Moulène
2010

In 2004, Jean-Luc Moulène notices a stalk of Paulownia growing through a crack in the asphalt in Paris, next to the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry building, which spans nos 121 to 135 rue de Bercy.

Permanent Ghost

Permanent Ghost

Jem Cohen
2010

These intermixed photographs of Tangier, and Cohen’s home city, New York, all originated as three-inch-square polaroids – a discontinued format.

Lebanese Rocket Society

Lebanese Rocket Society

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
2011

In the early 1960s, a group of students led by professor of mathematics Manoug Manougian at the Armenian Haigazian University in Lebanon designed and launched rockets for the purpose of exploring and studying space.

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