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Overview

Lawrence Weiner’s wall installation for Sharjah Biennial 9 spread across the façade of the Sharjah Art Museum. While seldom site-specific, Weiner’s text pieces physically correspond to the locations in which they are exhibited: His work for SB9 included both an English text and its corresponding Arabic translation and was strategically conceived to connect art and architecture and to articulate the façade of the Sharjah Art Museum in the manner of a contemporary Western calligraphist.

A central figure and pioneer of the conceptual art movement in the 1960s, Weiner is an Artist whose medium is language. His work takes the form of typographic text presented on gallery walls, building facades, objects and within books. As Weiner states in the SB9 exhibition catalogue, 'The work itself being shown is the objectification of a sculptural phenomenon: The intrusion of a specific sound into space.' Weiner’s practice investigates forms of display and distribution and challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of an art object, proposing the potential for language to serve as an art form.


This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 9

Commissioned and produced by Sharjah Art Foundation