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Sara Rahbar
Using the flag as a recurrent motif throughout her work, Rahbar explores ideas of nationalism, ideology and belonging.
Emily Jacir
Lydda Airport is an installation with short film that takes place at the eponymous location sometime in the mid to late 1930s and a sculpture.
Boundary Work
2017
Mixed media installation
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
Marcel Odenbach
In Männergeschichten, or Male Stories, a man sits for a shave in a Turkish barbershop. A caged bird chirps and local music plays in the background.
Bouchra Khalili
Bouchra Khalili’s Mapping Journeys project was unveiled in its finalised form for the first time at Sharjah Biennial 10.
Bouchra Khalili
Bouchra Khalili’s Mapping Journeys project was unveiled in its finalised form for the first time at Sharjah Biennial 10.
Half a Loaf
1966
Bread and mixed media soil compound on burlap
59.7 x 55.9 cm
Pistachios #1
1968
Pistachios adhering to mixed media soil compound on burlap
60.3 x 55.9 cm
A pioneer of modern art in Iran, Marcos Grigorian was an artist, teacher, gallerist, collector and curator.
Munif al Razzaz
1965
Oil on canvas
130 x 89 cm
Untitled
2009–2010
Oil on canvas
195 x 260 cm
Marwan Kassab Bachi, known simply as Marwan, was a pioneering painter and educator whose life and work bridged continents and cultures.
Mona Saudi
Etel Adnan
Commissioned tapestry for Sharjah Biennial 12 showing the artist's subtle power as a colourist.
We the People (Arabic version)
2018
Shoelaces
570 x 230 cm
We the People is an example of Nari Ward’s exploration of the American experience.
Mario Rizzi
Rizzi follows second-generation emigrants in Paris as they grapple with feelings of displacement.
Shahzia Sikander
Focusing on Sharjah’s location on the Strait of Hormuz, and the area’s historical power tensions, this animated video explores ideas of control and conflict.