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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
Nations

Nations

N S Harsha
2006

Nations, N S Harsha’s work for Sharjah Biennial 9, is an expansive installation consisting of hand-painted flags, sewing machines and textiles.

Call Cutta in a Box

Call Cutta in a Box

Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel)
2009

Rimini Protokoll are recognised as being among the leaders and creators of the theatre movement known as 'Reality Trend' (Theater der Zeit), which has exerted a powerful influence on the alternative theatre scene.

Cultivate Your Garden

Cultivate Your Garden

Camille Zakharia
1998

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.

Similarity or Just Complexity

Similarity or Just Complexity

Shatha Al-Wadi
2006-2007

Humans can never be alike,
Nor can trees .
A man and a tree in this being form An entity with a unique quality!

Paradise on Fire

Paradise on Fire

Sergio Vega
2007

Once I found a mouldy old book abandoned on the lower shelves of a political science library.

Less Oil More Courage

Less Oil More Courage

Rirkrit Tiravanija
2003

Some years ago I received an invitation card in the mail from a gallery in New York (Matthew Marks; it was an invitation to an exhibition by a young artist by the name of Peter Cain.

Autoxylopyrocycloboros

Autoxylopyrocycloboros

Simon Starling
2006

Autoxylopyrocycloboros documents a performance or, perhaps better, an action that took place on, and ultimately in, the waters of Loch Long on the West Coast of Scotland.

A Hanging Garden

A Hanging Garden

Samir Srouji
2007

A Hanging Garden is a site-specific garden project that is informed by the tension at the far edge of growth and the desert.

Cloud

Cloud

SOI Projects
2007

SOI is a collective group of artists, designers and architects from Bangkok and Tokyo.

Confrontation

Confrontation

Anas Al-Shaikh
2006

The work explores the idea of construction and destruction through the use of black and white symbolism to create a work space suggesting the opposition and complementarity between these two contrasts (the black and the white) as well as the degree of the influence of these relationships, whether complementary or opposing, on our lives, futures, environments, and societies.

Saphir

Saphir

Zineb Sedira
2006

The title Saphir (French for sapphire) reflects this, evoking not only the pure maritime light typical of Algiers, but also those flickering glimmers on the horizon that symbolise people’s dreams and aspirations.

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