Projects

Several aspects are recurrent in the work of Michael Sailstorfer: the sculptural transformation of matter from one thing into another, the fascination with the laws of physics (and, ultimately, the construction of the universe), and the notion of mobility versus standstill – where the latter also translates into the notion of "home".

I have been going on bike rides since 1992 - in the Emirates as well as in other places such as Japan, France, Scotland ... On these trips I make sketches of natural scenes and document them in my journals.

The woman as a recurring subject in my installations or performance work is represented as living in a state of occupation.

Filled with thousands of commands each second, our brains can no longer be surprised.

One day, I met dressed camels in a desert.

The invisible enemy should not exist, 2007 Michael Rakowitz’s most recent project, was originally conceived for a solo exhibition beginning of this year at Lombard-Freid Projects in New York City.

Personal responsibility is what is most important for the future.

Dan Peterman has been working since the mid-1980s as both an artist and an activist on the explosive intersection of ecology and aesthetics.

I use drawing to organise knowledge.

It is Benjamin who suggests that in order to truly know a society one has to look at the less privileged environs of its interstices, at the objects that are left behind as a result of human activity, at its waste and at the order that they represent or parody to some extent.

For some years Cornelia Parker’s work has been concerned with formalising things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something that is quiet and contemplative like the "eye of the storm".

I work from or within the urban environment, using mainly weeds and flowers to examine various ideas: plants looked at but not seen, forgotten in the backdrops of the everyday, inhabiting places that are usually neglected or unexplored.

The projects that I develop promote social interaction with authority and the structures of power in society.

In the art of Maha Mustafa a tension appears physically between what you might call a "meteorological" and a "geological" perspective.

Abdul Rahman Al Ma’aini’s works are fields of visual signals painted with accuracy and precision.