Project Description

An aerial photograph of a vacant plot of land in Afghanistan printed to scale
on a pitch protector and installed in the Sharjah Cricket Stadium for the night of
March 18, 2011. Colour digital print on flex

One day of uninterrupted footage of the Sharjah Cricket Stadium shot in September
2010, projected onto two sightscreens in a gallery space with a floor drawing of a cricket pitch. 2-channel HD video, colour, surround sound, 24 hours, steel, MDF, wheels, chalk

One square foot of white paint silk screened on seven hundred and forty portfolios
distributed during the Biennial, each containing a drawing made on Sharjah
Cricket Stadium stationary. Pencil on paper, offset print on paper, screen print on
cardboard, edition of 740

The Sharjah Cricket Stadium was built in 1981 by an Emirati entrepreneur upon
his return home from studying in Pakistan. It grew through the 1980s and 1990s
into one of the most prominent neutral venues for major international matches. In
the following years its reputation receded and it was left to live on in the presence of
its own past. In 2010 it was donated to the national cricket team of Afghanistan and
named their home ground. In the accumulation of these events, the stadium extends
itself through references to other locations. A piece of Afghani land comes to cover
a cricket pitch in Sharjah, a section of a stadium packs up and moves to a museum
and the area of a cricket pitch gives itself out in one square foot units of white paint.

April 2011