Collection

Basma Alsharif’s work explores how we relate to and internalise the geo-political shifts that occur within our lifetimes and those we carry with us from past generations.

Initially a self-taught painter, Fateh Moudarres lived and studied predominantly in Syria, with the exception of a few influential years at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome in the late 1950s and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris in the 1970s.

Baya
b. 1931, Bordj El Kiffan, Algeria
d. 1998, Blida, Algeria

Devoid of pitiful moralising and surpassing fetishistic infatuation with depictions of human sordidness, in the series Fictionville Rokni Haerizadeh cunningly (and controversially) violates and perverts found photographic media images depicting human suffering into an anthropomorphic Orwellian world of fairytales: humorous, grotesque, satirical, bitter.

In Framing the View, empty French colonial houses and dilapidated ruins appear to emerge out of the cliffs where they once stood overlooking the sea.

In Framing the View, empty French colonial houses and dilapidated ruins appear to emerge out of the cliffs where they once stood overlooking the sea.

In Framing the View, empty French colonial houses and dilapidated ruins appear to emerge out of the cliffs where they once stood overlooking the sea.

In Framing the View, empty French colonial houses and dilapidated ruins appear to emerge out of the cliffs where they once stood overlooking the sea.

This work traces unlikely points of convergence in Iran and Poland's economic, social, political, religious and cultural stories.

Through the medium of a feature-length film, different experiences and encounters at sea (and on adjacent land) are not so much tied together as allowed to speak.

In this video, a man walks among the picturesque ruins, reenacting poses from Franz Roubaud’s late nineteenth-century paintings of the Caucasian War.

The film depicts an epic journey in which the pair strives to break a Guinness World Record, by pushing a wheelbarrow from Ljubljana to Sharjah – a feat that would cover a distance of 14,500 kilometres and require 3 years and 12 days.