Focal Point 2025 Image Keepers: Photographic Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection Photographic Encounters along the Gulf Coasts Leda Catunda: I like to like what others are liking Afra Al Dhaheri: Restless Circle

Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual art book fair showcases independent bookmaking from around the world.

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In its inaugural exhibition, the Photography Gallery presents a panorama of artistic experimentation and engagement through the medium of photography. Drawn from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, the works navigate the sociopolitical terrain of the last six decades against a backdrop of the compressed, and often fissured, processes of modernisation and decolonisation.

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Comprising 165 photographs and archival documents from the collection of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Sharjah, this exhibition serves as a starting point for research into how photography translates and interprets history.

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Drawing from a world of visual and material excess, Brazilian artist Leda Catunda offers a vivid reflection on the sensory saturation of modern-day life. A citation from the artist’s own words, the exhibition title reads as a contemporary confession that captures the complex entanglements of taste, desire and identity.

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Restless Circle brings together a selection of works by Afra Al Dhaheri that explore the structural effects of tension, repetition and time. Working with materials such as cotton rope, fabric, cement and hair, the artist emphasises slow gestures, intentional movements and the fatigue that can build from ongoing, repetitive and even invisible labour.

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