Sharjah Biennial 8
Still Life: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change

Interdisciplinary artist Lara Baladi employs photography, video, sound and installations to create interwoven images of past and present, myth and reality, with a focus on the Middle East and particularly the Arab Spring. She explores ways in which interactions between images and technology affect visual narratives.

Rene Gabri is interested in the complex mechanisms which constitute the world around us.

The work of conceptual artist Abdulnasser Gharem encompasses photography, video, performance and sculpture.

Working with simple materials, Gill translates and expands the elusive qualities of her local places and her habitation of them.

Art historian, critic and curator Salah M. Hassan is Director of The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies and the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University.

Mona Hatoum’s work is an outstanding example of the interweaving of ethical, political and aesthetic issues.

Hervé Cohen is an award-winning documentary and feature filmmaker, cinematographer, writer, editor and producer whose intimate, personal works explore identity, exile and memory.

Geeta Kapur’s work engages with issues related to national and postcolonial paradigms, heterodox modernisms, critical contemporaneity and the curatorial positioning of artworks.

Informed by his education and work as a medical doctor as well as the social, religious and historical contexts of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Mater’s practice explores the narratives of Islamic culture in an era of globalisation, consumerism and flux.

Hassan Meer’s work is multifaceted, encompassing painting, photography, video and installations using light and text.

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.

In video, photography, sculpture and installation, Zineb Sedira explores notions of gender, language, national identity and modernity.

Surabhi Sharma is an independent filmmaker with films that have been screened and awarded at various international film festivals. Sharma has produced and directed more than 10 feature length films.