Projects

In November 2006, as I was flying back from Dubai to Frankfurt, images appeared in my mind: buildings, grid structures, high-reflecting glass, in blue and green everywhere.

Hatoum’s work is an outstanding example of the interweaving of ethical, political and aesthetic issues, whose beauty lies in the wit, economy, risk-taking and even mischief-making with which these issues are conflated...

My work explores the relationship between geological phenomena and daily life.

My work is a result of the different thoughts going on in my mind, or, what I would call the noises in my mind.

The first issue is to try and stay focused on the matters of survival.

I grew up in a different Cairo, the Cairo of the late sixties and seventies; at that time, to me as a child, people looked different, dressed differently, talked differently, and strangely enough, behaved differently.

Illumination Rig starts with a basic premise, turning money into light; it is in this sense an event, an occasion where consumption and transformation are made conspicuous.

When urban foxes are accidentally attracted to a photo- shoot by slices of sausage, when flies write poetic scores on panes of glass, or quite normal street-lamps do not switch on until someone passes them, then the young Danish artist Tue Greenfort is at work.

"Power Station" is a series of 13 pairs of photographs recording the interiors of two buildings that have been neighbours for nearly 40 years.

Since the dawn of time nature has found a way to balance all its elements in order to live in a state of equilibrium. This state is known to us as the ecosystem.

In the 1970s, especially after “documenta 5” in 1972 curated by Harald Szeemann, large-sized hyperrealistic group-portrait paintings featuring Bohemian hippy scenes had brought an international reputation to Franz Gertsch.

The immense wealth from geological deposits of petroleum generated in the past century, and possibly still generated for another century

Underneath is a special project for the Sharjah Biennial 8 based on a former architectural work by Mounir Fatmi called Ovale Project, and a video entitled Horizontal Fall, showing the deconstruction of a building.

Our very first work together was already our last.

On seeing Touhami Ennadre’s work for the first time, you will be sure to experience strong feelings. You will not remain indifferent, calm.