Space Refugee Project, 2018
Halil Altindere
Space Refugee Project, 2018
Painted portraits, stamps, VR video, video, spacesuits, robotic car, dimensions variable
Sharjah Art Foundation Collectio
Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
Overview
Expanding on the programme’s key ideas, Active Forms will also present an exhibition of works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection by artists John Akomfrah, Basma Alsharif, Halil Altındere, Bahar Behbahani, Simone Fattal, Hazem Harb, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, Maha Maamoun, Almagul Menlibayeva, Naeem Mohaiemen, Magdi Mostafa, Raeda Saadeh, Sharif Waked and Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara. On view from 16 March to 16 June, the works will enrich MM 2018 conversations about issues of resistance, organising and form and extend the dialogue and engagement beyond the three days of the meetings.
Gallery 6, Bait Gholoum Ibrahim, Bait Al Aboudi, Bait Abdul Raheem Jasem in Al Mureijah Square, Bait Al Shamsi in Arts Square and the Old Sharjah Planetarium
Space Refugee Project
Halil Altindere
2018
Painted portraits, stamps, VR video, video, spacesuits, robotic car, dimensions variable.
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
various works
Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara
2018
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.
The Story of Milk and Honey
Basma Al Sharif
2018
Video installation, 10-minute video loop, photographic series, dimensions variable. Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
sound cells: FRIDAYS
Magdi Mostafa
2018
From the series 'sound cells'. Washing machines, microphones, mic stands, speakers, mixer and sound system,
dimensions variable. Installation view: SAF Art Spaces, Sharjah, 2018. Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.
sound cells: FRIDAYS
Magdi Mostafa
2018
From the series 'sound cells'. Washing machines, microphones, mic stands, speakers, mixer and sound system, dimensions variable. Detail view: SAF Art Spaces, Sharjah, 2018. Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
Kurchatov 22
Almagul Menlibayeva
2012
5-channel HD video installation, surround sound, 29 minutes 14 seconds.Sound: OMFO. Installation view: SAF spaces, 2018.Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
Ride the Caspian
Bahar Behbahani & Almagul Menlibayeva
2011
2-channel video installation, HD colour, surround sound, wall- mounted digital photographs, 11 minutes 50 seconds,
Sound: OMFO, Negar Behbahani. Installation view: SAF spaces, 2018.
Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation with a grant from the Art and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute–Budapest and the support of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
In Transit
Hazem Harb
2013
Wood, mattress, polystyrene, cement, strips, dimensions variable. Installation view: SAF spaces, 2018.
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.
Vertigo Sea
John Akomfrah
2015
Three-channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound, 48 minutes 30 seconds. Installation view: SAF spaces, 2018.
Co-produced in association with Sharjah Art Foundation Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
Two Meetings and a Funeral
Naeem Mohaimen
2017
Three-channel digital video installation, colour, six-channel sound, 85 minutes. Installation view: SAF spaces, 2018.
Commissioned by documenta 14.
Co-commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and Ford Foundation Just Films.
Supported by Bengal Foundation (Bangladesh), Tensta Konstshall (Sweden), Arts Council (UK). Additional support by Tate Films/Tate Modern (UK)
Courtesy of artist and Experimenter (India).
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
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