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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
Facing Emptiness

Facing Emptiness

Sophie Elbaz
2006

My work talks about the cradle of humanity contaminated, about the African continent as the world’s garbage bin.

Holes

Holes

Bright Ugochukwu eke
2007

In my country, Nigeria, many people rely on sachet water (popularly called “pure water”) because of the lack of good drinking water.

Into The Future

Into The Future

Muratbek Djumaliev and Gulnara Kasmalieva
2005

The Past, the Present and the Future.

Wondering about the Future

Wondering about the Future

Marjolijn Dijkman
2007

Developing works in an on-site manner, Dijkman reacts to a specific context by making temporary spatial shifts or adjustments to a given space.

Storm #2

Storm #2

Taysir Batniji
2007

The documentaries of Taysir Batniji differ from sensationalised standard documentaries.

Steps and Paths

Steps and Paths

Noor Al-Bastaki
2005

Confident steps of youth, armed with knowledge and will, filled with determination and life, on a road fraught with difficulties, confusion and fear.

Justice for the mother

Justice for the mother

Lara Baladi
2007

The two photomontages Perfumes & Bazaar and Justice for the mother are trompe l'oeils of walls in a living-room covered with wallpaper showing on one side a teeming garden of earthly delights and on the other a jungle.

Perfumes & Bazaar

Perfumes & Bazaar

Lara Baladi
2005

The two photomontages Perfumes & Bazaar and Justice for the mother are trompe l'oeils of walls in a living-room covered with wallpaper showing on one side a teeming garden of earthly delights and on the other a jungle.

Efface: Death Becomes Her

Efface: Death Becomes Her

Mireille Astore
2007

Efface: Death Becomes Her is a body of work that examines eternal grief as a continuum between a desired state and the imminent and natural occurrence of death.

Naming Forms/UAE

Naming Forms/UAE

Vladimir Arkhipov
2007

In the Russian language the word for “creative work” (“tvorchestvo”) shares a root with the word for “Creator” (“Tvorets”).

Juggernaut

Juggernaut

Roy Arden
2000

Around 1990, I began to photograph my local surroundings.

Wrinkle of Earth

Wrinkle of Earth

El Anatsui
2007

The media I explore have certain things in common. They are sourced from my immediate environment.

GUIDE TO AL KHAN: An empty city in the village of Sharjah

GUIDE TO AL KHAN: An empty city in the village of Sharjah

Lara Almarcegui
2007

I want to question urban planning through the study of places that escape a fixed definition of a city or of architecture: empty lots, wastelands, buildings before, during and after their demolition; places which, due to forgetfulness or lack of interest, escape a defined design and are open to all kinds of possibilities.

The Nature of Conflict

The Nature of Conflict

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
2007

Over the past five years, we have realised a series of site- specific projects informed by the working concept Land Mark

Brick Sellers of Kabul

Brick Sellers of Kabul

Lida Abdul
2006

Lida Abdul’s “Brick Sellers of Kabul” approaches the complex process of reconstruction in Afghanistan, producing a subtle reflection that could be perceived and considered as a comment on social negotiation and transformation.

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