Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present

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Crude Eye(2022)

Monira Al Qadiri
Crude Eye, 2022
Installation view: Sharjah Biennial 15, Bank Street Building, Sharjah, 2023

Talk Description

Sharjah Biennial (SB15) artist Monira Al Qadiri and critic, curator and art historian Murtaza Vali discuss speculative artistic representations of our collective human and earthly trajectory. How do artistic practices and exhibitions address environmental destruction, war and resource extraction? How is the oil industry entangled with the (neo)colonial realities of the past, present and future? This session tackles these questions and more in our present age of petro-modernity and its spectres of a post-oil era.

Guest Monira Al Qadiri – Artist

Interviewer Murtaza Vali – Critic, curator and art historian

Registration

This discussion will be held at 7:00 pm Gulf Standard Time (GST).
This discussion will take place via Zoom and will be held in English.

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