Artworks and archives lead lives beyond their production and exhibition. SAF Archive & Collection Building brings these dimensions into view, allowing visitors a chance to observe firsthand the processes that go into maintaining a collection of over 5,000 objects, as well as an ever-evolving archive of sketches, publications, exhibition ephemera, and blueprints.
More infoThe first evening brings together Imarhan, a quintet from southern Algeria, and Osaka-based soul singer Nao Yoshioka, with an opening listening session featuring an episode of ASWAAT, SAF Radio’s seasonal music show.
More infoThe fifth edition of Perform Sharjah considers how we move, remember, work and play through a curated season of performances. Treating the body as a site of artistic inquiry, the programme shifts fluidly between intimate reflection and collective experience. As such, this iteration includes performances by a diverse set of international artists who create spaces for both active participation and quiet observation.
More infoA Sea for Borrowed Time draws on selections from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection to explore the diversity of Palestinian artistic practice across several generations. While some of the artists were born in Palestine, others have experienced exile or become part of communities whose histories are deeply connected to the wider Levant. Together, their works examine the lived realities of occupation and displacement, considering questions of belonging, inheritance, grief and cultural survival.
More infoOur present is troubled by what remains of unlived pasts, of the defeated yet undead projects of a modernity premised on universal emancipation. Rather than passive and dormant, these remainders continue to animate the present with their restive rhythms, shaping the politics of time and space. Histories resurface and endure, not as pure recurrence but as residues and morphed processes actively informing the now. Grounded in this common theme, Sharjah Biennial 17: What remains, sits restive brings together two different approaches, each articulated by one of the two curators: Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento.
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