Publication Details
In Spite of it All
Exhibition Guide
Paperback
93 pages, 27 visuals
16 x 11 cm
Arabic and English
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation, 2012
Overview
In Spite of it All, was an exhibition curated by Hoor Al Qasimi. All of the works are part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s growing collection, and most had been shown in previous Sharjah Biennials, from 2003 to 2011. Most of the works were acquired by the Foundation because of their resonance with the socio-political, cultural and economic realities of Sharjah and the wider region. The exhibition featured work by fourteen artists including Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Muratbek Djoumaliev and Gulnara Kazmalieva, Nikolaj Larsen, Maha Maamoun, Rashid Masharawi, Jean-Luc Moulène, Moataz Nasr, Marcel Odenbach, Melik Ohanian, Mario Rizzi, Raeda Saadeh, Jayce Salloum, Sharif Waked and Liu Wei. This booklet accompanied the exhibition and included descriptions and visuals of works that were on view.
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In Spite of it All
This exhibition of work from the Sharjah Art Foundation’s growing collection presents a range of artistic responses to some of the most pressing issues we are faced with today.
Anastas, Ayreen
Brooklyn-based Ayreen Anastas uses text, film, video, audio and the internet to create work that focuses on legal and discursive shifts around differing notions of security and the subsequent effects on everyday life.
Gabri, René
Rene Gabri is interested in the complex mechanisms which constitute the world around us.
Larsen, Nikolaj
Nikolaj Larsen uses a variety of materials and media to create work with a deeply humanistic engagement at its core.
Maamoun, Maha
Maha Maamoun is an artist who works primarily with the mediums of text, photography and video.
Masharawi, Rashid
Masharawi describes his work as an attempt to create a ‘cinema’ out of the Palestinian situation.
Moulène, Jean-Luc
Jean-Luc Moulène uses photography as a tool for studying natural and cultural phenomena as they have been redefined by the development of industry, media and commerce.
Nasr, Moataz
Moataz Nasr works with a range of artistic mediums including, painting, sculpture, photography and video to explore the complex cultural developments currently unfolding across the Islamic world
Odenbach, Marcel
His work critically examines subject formation in the context of socio-cultural norms and historical specificities.
Ohanian, Melik
Ohanian’s artworks can be understood as physical and conceptual territories that focus on the concept of time.
Rizzi, Mario
Rizzi’s photographs, films and video installations explore the impact of neo-liberal globalisation on individual lives through intimate, personal narratives.
Saadeh, Raeda
Raeda Sa’adeh’s work is mainly rooted in photography, performance and video, and the artist uses her own body as the core subject of most of her work.
Waked, Sharif
Sharif Waked’s work, reflects on power, politics and the everyday, often creating junctions between particular moments in the present and cultural references from the past.
Al Qasimi, Hoor
Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, in the region and around the world.