On view at dOCUMENTA ( 13), which opened on June 9^th in Kassel, Germany, are two artist projects commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation: Bani Abidi’s “Death at a 30 Degree Angle” and CAMP’s “The Boat Modes.”

Both artists were the recipients of SAF’s Production Programme grant in 2011, which is awarded annually to encourage ambitious projects and to provide artists with a platform for experimentation.

Bani Abidi (b. 1971, Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani artist based in New Delhi, India. Her multimedia installation, “Death at a 30 Degree Angle” is composed of video, architectural drawings and clay maquettes. It constructs a fictional narrative about a small-time politician who commissions a monumental sculpture of himself to be displayed publicly. Power, self-aggrandizement, sycophancy and paranoia are some of the central themes explored in this complex portrait.

“Death at a 30 Degree Angle” will be included in an exhibition curated by SAF President Hoor Al Qasimi, on view in Sharjah this coming November.

CAMP is an artist studio founded in 2007 in Bombay, India. Its members include Shaina Anand (Bombay, India) and Ashok Sukumaran (Sapporo, Japan). CAMP’s installation, “The Boat Modes” (2009 – 2012) includes a film that takes viewers on a journey from the Gulf of Kutch in India to the U.A.E. to the ports of Somalia and back. The Kassel presentation of this work was co-commissioned by dOCUMENTA.

dOCUMENTA (13) runs until the 16^th of September, 2012.