Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions for the Future
and Past of the Coming Days

My work is opposed to views that transmute into overviews and prejudices by forgetting or neglecting the complexity and the unique character of a context, region and situation. It is an attempt to express the impossibility and the uselessness of defining a point of view. Nadia Kaabi Linke

Maider López initially brought her interventions to Sharjah as part of the experimental residency Lab Project in 2007. It was during this residency that she first transformed the public square in the Arts Area by introducing the gridlines of a football pitch.

Working with video, drawing, photography and text, the work of José Luis Martinat is often characterised by the appropriation and then deconstruction and manipulation of pre-existing material.