Airmail Paintings
The following is a text in progress, dating back to 1985 and now published in its eighth state; it...
A project room based on the unrealised proposal Decoder, 2009
Alberto Duman
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
Decoder can be read as an inverted monument to the preferred mythology of a consumer-driven model...
Inheritance: Reclaiming Native Peoples and Places, 2009
Melissa Chimera & Adele Ne Jame
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Root/Route Patterns of Sharjah: Path to the Persian Market, Geology Lesson, Geography Lesson, a Pearl Divers Tale, 2009
Doris Bittar
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
My project for the biennial is broad and in four parts, one of which is a long and narrow footpath...
Have a Pleasant Stay!, 2009
Samira Badran
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
One of the numerous places which has suffered a radical and dramatic transformation is between...
FUGERE (A Series of Olympiadic Moments), 2009
Haig Aivazian
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
FUGERE (A Series of Olympiadic Moments) is an exploration into the strangeness of the realm of...
In This is a Sign for Those Who Reflect, 2009
Hamra Abbas
Biennial
Artist's Statement
Men take off their shoes before entering into a large room to sit close to each other in a circle....
The Majlis, 2008-2009
Lamya Gargash
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
Artist's Statement
The work I am showing is very close to my heart because it reflects my interpretation or rather our...
Drip Field, 2009
Sheela Gowda
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
On my first visit to Sharjah, I came with very little knowledge about the cultural and physical...
Noor (Light), 2009
Giuseppe Moscatello
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
I work on the concept of time mainly by dissecting and analyzing time in relation to movement and...
God Grows on Trees, 2007-2008
Hamra Abbas
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
God Grows on Trees consists of 99 portraits of children studying in madrasahs across Pakistan whom...
Dubai: What's Left of Her Land? 2008
Reem Al Ghaith
Biennial, Collection
Dubai: What's Left of Her Land?
Dubai is a city of superlatives that includes the largest, the highest, and the most expensive. ...
Spells On Our Youth, 2009
Diana Al Hadid
Biennial
Spells on Our Youth
Spells on Our Youth was a site-specific project made on location for the 9th Sharjah Biennial....
Here, 2009
Jawad Al Malhi
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
Having been born in Shufhat camp and having lived there for over 30 years I have witnessed its...
We Began By Measuring Distance, 2009
Basma Al Sharif
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
The work began as hours of unrelated footage and a frustration with history, facts and the...
Portrait of the Sheikh, 2009
Halil Altindere
Biennial
Artist's Statement
I received an invitation from Sharjah Biennial 9 on November 2008 to create a site-specific project...
Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict, 2009
Rasha Salti and Ziad Antar
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Smile, You're in Sharjah, 2009
Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Man to Man, 2009
Agnes Janich
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Man to Man, 2009
In her disturbing project for the 2009 Sharjah Biennial, Man to Man (2009), Janich created a...
Domesticated Marionettes, 2008-2009
Hayv Kahraman
Biennial
Artist's Statement
This work is part of a series of large canvases titled Domesticated Marionettes where the...
The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich, 2009
Hiroyuki Masuyama
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich
For the 9th Sharjah Biennial, Hiroyuki Masuyama recreated a series of lost paintings by...
Going South - From Ljubljana to Sharjah, 2009
Nika Oblak and Primož Novak
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
To Be Continued, 2009
Sharif Waked
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
To Be Continued, 2009
Videos of the 'living martyr' have become a staple in global media and a powerful visual presence...
Richard III (An Arab Tragedy), 2007
Sulayman Al-Bassam Theater
Biennial
Richard III (An Arab Tragedy)
In this dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, the historic setting of late Medieval...
The Monumental vs. the Imaginary; The construction of the “locale” in the historic cemeteries of Cairo, 2009
May Al-Ibrashy
Biennial
Artist's Statement
This lecture looks at the cemeteries of Cairo in the late medieval period, a time when the Mamluk...
Wharfage (Leaving Sharjah), CAMP, 2009
CAMP (Shaina Anand, Nida Ghouse, Hakim Lillyawalla and Ashok Sukumaran)
Biennial
A project on the creek in Sharjah, from where a large number of dhows leave for...
An informal conversation between Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh, 2009
Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh
Biennial
Sharjah National Theatre Archive launch, 2009
In collaboration with Sharjah National Theatre and Jumaa Al Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage.
Biennial
Minutes of a Meeting, 2009
Sulayman Al-Bassam
Biennial
Minutes of a Meeting - Performance - Rehearsed Reading (Work-in-Progress)
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On red nails, palm trees and other icons, 2007-2009
Hala Elkoussy
Biennial, Exhibitions, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
On red nails, palm trees and other icons is a personal archive of images that came together over...
Un-Drum 2/ The Chinese Connection, 2009
Tarek Atoui
Biennial, Exhibitions
Un-drum 2/The Chinese Connection
Un-drum is a complex interaction between music composition, body movement, performance and computer...
In Shallah, 2005
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen
Residency Programme, Biennial, Commissions & Productions
I Always Buy My Lunch At the Mayfair Bar, 1983
Robert MacPherson
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
