Projects

DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See explores the notion of producing a continuous representation of space and a discontinuous representation of time – at the same time.

Considered to be among the most accomplished Arab painters and printmakers, Dalloul’s works merge contemporary disciplines with traditional materials such as ink, sepia and handmade paper.

The Sharjah Cricket Stadium was built in 1981 by an Emirati entrepreneur upon his return home from studying in Pakistan.

Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ practice is infused with a long-standing desire to make language visible.

Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ practice is infused with a long-standing desire to make language visible.

Execution Squares (2008) depicts public squares in three Syrian cities–Aleppo, Latakia and Damascus–where public execution occurred and in some cases, continues.

'Devoid of pitiful moralising and surpassing fetishistic infatuation with depictions of human sordidness, in the series Fictionville Rokni Haerizadeh cunningly (and controversially) violates and perverts found photographic media images depicting human suffering into an anthropomorphic Orwellian world of fairytales: humourous,grotesque, satirical, bitter.'

The areesh, a traditional Emirati palm shelter used as housing until the 1950s, functions in Shelter for a New Youth to provide protection from the sun.

A late-night chat between two former lovers who have not been in contact for ten years transforms into a compelling elegy of loss and longing.

In Praise of Letters is a manifesto by Samir Sayegh, one of the most accomplished and innovative visual artists working with the form and discourse of calligraphy.

Sunny Lane is Sonnenallee in German, a famous street in the south west of Berlin, home to a large number of Arab immigrants.

These three Untitled paintings are the beginnings of a new, yet to be finished series, inspired from photographs that have appeared in the press during the 2009 elections.

Set in the lush Rif mountains of northern Morocco, As They Say spans the length of a weekend camping trip where a father and his son hike in a forest to fish in a beautiful lake.

Malika lives a double life. By day, she is a conservatively dressed student and call-centre worker,who lives with her parents in the old kasbah of Tangier.

In this work six separate sheets of hand-cut paper show carvings of Arabic script. Arabic is the first spoken language of nearly 300 million people.