Publication Details
Surface Tension
Exhibition Guide
Paperback
128 pages, 46 visuals
16.5 x 11.5 cm
Arabic and English
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019
Overview
This exhibition booklet is a record of Surface Tension, an exhibition that features works in video, painting, drawing and sculpture that explore ‘surface’ as a dynamic interface between artists and their surroundings.
Although the notion of surface can conjure associations with the inconsequential or the everyday, the slick or the superficial, the works in this exhibition play on these associations in order to elaborate on knowledge, relationships and informal gestures that yield aesthetic insight or meaningful social innovation. The artists foreground synthetic materials and formal artifice in order to engage deeply with their surroundings and explore new dimensions of collective experience.
Surface Tension includes works by Mohammad Al Faraj, Minam Apang, Dale Harding, Mire Lee, Randa Maroufi and Dala Nasser and was curated by Ryan Inouye.
Surface Tension
Surface Tension features works in video, painting, drawing and sculpture that explore ‘surface’ as a dynamic interface between artists and their surroundings.
Al Faraj, Mohammed
As an artist and freelance filmmaker, his practice often reflects a collaborative ethos moves seamlessly across various platforms, which include television, social media channels and visual art institutions.
Apang, Minam
For Minam Apang, drawing is a way of renewing relationships with her surroundings as well as a method of mining memory and the fluid space of imagination.
Harding, Dale
Dale Harding works in a wide variety of media to explore the untold histories of his communities.
Maroufi, Randa
The experimental works of filmmaker and artist Randa Maroufi explore an elastic awareness of reality.
Nasser, Dala
Dala Nasser’s work examines how representational concerns taken up in painting and art practice might develop in tandem with the urgent need to account for dramatic environmental change.
Inouye, Ryan
Ryan Inouye is associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12.