Publication Details
Drawing Time: Duets
Exhibition guide
Paperback
130 pages, 41 visuals
16.5 x 11.5 cm
English and Arabic
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation
2024
ISBN 978-1-915656-15-5
Overview
This exhibition guide highlights recent acquisitions and rarely seen historical works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, intricately woven to narrate the significance of drawing as a practice. In Drawing Time: Duets, concepts of the ‘double’ are explored through works by 15 artists from diverse geographies and cultural backgrounds, including Amal Kenawy, Baya, Claudette Johnson, David Koloane, Eduard Puterbrot, Farideh Lashai, Hassan Sharif, Helen Khal, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ibrahim Massouda, Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Kimathi Donkor, Monir Canaan, Omer Khairy and Theaster Gates.
The guide includes a foreword from Hoor Al Qasimi, Foundation director; a curatorial note from Omar Kholeif, exhibition’ curator; and an essay from Collection researcher Souraya Talal Kreideh on the process and concepts of the exhibition.
Drawing Time: Duets
Drawing Time: Duets brings to life an expansive history of drawing through rarely seen works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, which collectively explore the concept of the double or the pair.
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Kholeif, Omar
Omar Kholeif, PhD, CF FRSA, is an author and artist; a curator and cultural historian, and a broadcaster who has curated more than 100 exhibitions of visual art, architecture and digital culture.
Kenawy, Amal
Amal Kenawy’s work explores political, social and feminist issues, primarily in Egypt, and reflects on topics of death and regeneration.
Puterbrot, Eduard
Highly influenced by his home country of Dagestan and its traditions, mythology and culture, Puterbrot’s work encompasses the realm of Dagestani fairy tales, legends and traditions.
Farideh Lashai
Farideh Lashai was a true multi-disciplinary artist, working in painting, sculpture, installation and stop motion animation.
Sharif, Hassan
A pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East, Hassan Sharif explored form, time, social action and mathematical systems throughout his career.
Donkor, Kimathi
Kimathi Donkor reimagines mythic, historical and everyday encounters across Africa and its global diasporas, addressing the erasure of Black subjectivity and Black historical figures from western canonical art history.