Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Breakout Session 1

This breakout session features Qudsia Rahim (Executive Director, Lahore Biennale Foundation and Director, Lahore Biennale), Murtaza Vali (critic, curator, art historian), and Otobong Nkanga (artist) in an open conversation about topics related to the March Meeting 2021 theme, ‘Unravelling the Present’. The talk is moderated by Noora Al Mualla (Director of Learning and Research, Sharjah Art Foundation).

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Rahim, Qudsia

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Vali, Murtaza

Murtaza Vali is a critic, curator and art historian. His ongoing research interests include materialist art histories, ex-centric minimalisms, ghosts and other figures of liminal subjectivities and repressed histories.

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Nkanga, Otobong

Otobong Nkanga works across a broad spectrum of mediums in order to explore ideas surrounding land and natural resources.