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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
Nosferasta: First Bite (2021)

Nosferasta: First Bite (2021)

Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer with Oba

Adam Khalil is a filmmaker artist and Ojibway tribal member whose work amplifies Indigenous artist voices. Bayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker whose lens-based practice seeks to advance radical political futures. Oba is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and actor.

Under the Cold River Bed (2021)

Under the Cold River Bed (2021)

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s collaborative projects range from investigating disappearances during the Lebanese Civil War to rediscovering a forgotten space project from the 1960s to giving materiality to internet scams and examining the geological undergrounds of cities.

The Willing (2022–2023) and other works

The Willing (2022–2023) and other works

Helina Metaferia

Challenging the Eurocentrism of art, amplifying the labour of BIPOC women activists and evaluating notions of citizenship, Helina Metaferia seeks to elucidate the contradictions at the core of American identity.

Water is a Time Machine (2023)

Water is a Time Machine (2023)

Aline Motta

Sifting through traces of the past, Brazilian visual artist Aline Motta seeks to reveal the constant cycles of renewal and transmutation that have occurred throughout her family’s history.

The Myth of Eternal Life (2020–2022)

The Myth of Eternal Life (2020–2022)

Zohra Opoku

Zohra Opoku traces the politics of personal identity from a critical perspective informed by historical, cultural and socioeconomic influences in contemporary Ghana.

Treasured Shadows (2022)

Treasured Shadows (2022)

Aziza Shadenova

Aziza Shadenova’s paintings, films and performances interrogate the world of emotions and memories and advance non- linear understandings of time.

Garden of Desire (2023)

Garden of Desire (2023)

Bahar Behbahani

Bahar Behbahani’s research-based practice interweaves archival materials, cartography, horticultural history and contemporary context to critique imperial structures of knowledge and power.

MADRE (2019–ongoing)

MADRE (2019–ongoing)

Marisol Mendez

Marisol Mendez’s work journeys into ancestral and collective histories of colonialism, racism and traditionalism—all of which shaped her experience of growing up in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Searching for Libertalia (2019)

Searching for Libertalia (2019)

Shiraz Bayjoo

Shiraz Bayjoo’s practice elucidates forgotten histories that contain multiple layers of meaning and visual culture. Mainly working with repurposed archival displays, his works subvert oppressive western historical narratives that have defined the psyches of colonised peoples.

Mapping Water (2023)

Mapping Water (2023)

Naiza Khan

With ecological research at the centre of her intersecting artistic interests, Naiza Khan considers the ways in which geography materialises power and facilitates the collective remembrance of colonial histories.

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