Projects

Simryn Gill’s projects have often focused on the presentation and transformation of found objects to examine relationships between culture, knowledge and place.

A Small Town at the Turn of the Century is a series of 39 type C photographs that were taken by Simryn Gill in Port Dickson in Malaysia, the town where she grew up.

A complex, winding installation of plumbing pipes took over one of the museum’s rooms.

Laurent Grasso’s film Spy Falcon was inspired by the Artist’s visit to Sharjah, where he heard mythological and romantic stories of traditional Arabic hunters.

This series advances an idea of painting as an interactive medium able to channel google searches, social networks and spiritual phenomena.

Agnes Janich created a multi-video installation where viewers were led through a maze of darkened passages to the prison-like cages of barking dogs.

This dichotomy or battle of the opposites encompasses the human condition as a whole and exposes our universal values together with our detestable errors.

In what he describes as the ‘poetic documentary’ Rendezvous, Nikolaj Larsen attempts to capture the accumulated emotion contained within this abstract space.

Written in Arabic script this work playfully references the notion of ‘in shallah’ in Arabic culture.

Maider Lopez installed a drinking fountain in the main square of Sharjah Art Area, which the Artist saw as a useful addition for the people who live there.

For this work, Maider López marked out a football field with painted lines across the middle of the main public square of the Sharjah Art Area.