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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025
Speaker, Curator, Writer
Historian, architect and curator Nadi Abusaada studies the foundations of the architectural profession in West Asia, the history of national exhibitions in the modern Arab world, and the intersection between photographic practice and representations of the natural landscape in Palestine.
Omar Abusaada is a Syrian director and playwright. He studied at the High Institute of Dramatic Arts, Damascus and worked as a dramatist before moving into directing.
Architect
Sir David Adjaye OBE is recognised as a leading architect of his generation.
Artist
A celebrated writer, poet, artist and filmmaker, Etel Adnan is considered a leading figure in modern and contemporary art.
Artist
Saâdane Afif’s installations often combine ready-made objects with appropriated popular music.
Artist
Depictions of daily Cairene life and the realities of the factory floor have dominated Fathi Afifi’s work for over four decades. His canvases mirror the energy that propelled him through an era of industrial transformation and the heyday of the Egyptian plastic arts movement.
Film Curator
Talal Afifi is the director of Sudan Film Factory, an independent cultural platform devised to expose Sudanese audiences to filmmaking and cinema.
Artist
At the intersection of conceptual, staged and documentary image-making, Hoda Afshar’s artistic practice explores the representation of gender, marginality and displacement.
Artist, Curator, Writer
Ravi Agarwal is an artist, curator, writer and environmental activist. He explores issues of urban space, ecology, capital and globalisation through photographs, text, video, performance and site-specific installations.
Artist
A classically trained pianist who later turned to jazz, Sophie Agnel approaches the piano from every sonic angle, considering keys, strings and board simultaneously.
Artist
Multidisciplinary artist Amina Agueznay blends elements of structure, reinterpreted traditional mediums and collective participation in artworks that vary in scale from minute to monumental.
Assistant Professor
Mahvish Ahmad is Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics at the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics.
Curator and Founder, Field Meeting
she is a curator and educator noted for directing Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) platform.
Writer
Dr Yousef Aidabi is currently the Advisor at the Dr Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies.
Karim Aïnouz is a Brazilian-Algerian filmmaker and visual artist. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Brasilia and in Cinema Studies from New York University.
Artist, Curator and Writer
Haig Aivazian is an Artist, Curator and Writer currently based in Chicago.