Collection

Hrair Sarkissian uses the techniques of documentary photography to comment on complex social and political realities and to question the ways in which photography as a medium determines how images of these realities are read.

Hrair Sarkissian uses the techniques of documentary photography to comment on complex social and political realities and to question the ways in which photography as a medium determines how images of these realities are read.

Hrair Sarkissian uses the techniques of documentary photography to comment on complex social and political realities and to question the ways in which photography as a medium determines how images of these realities are read.

Hrair Sarkissian uses the techniques of documentary photography to comment on complex social and political realities and to question the ways in which photography as a medium determines how images of these realities are read.

Images migrate, often without much luggage. Take this hole in the ground: if the image were in a Texan newspaper, the hole would tunnel through to another, lawless place. What is its promise here?

The Power Station series records the interiors of two neighbour buildings, a power station and a residence.

In Algiers, near the Bab el Oued neighborhood, there is a beach that young people nickname 'Rochers Carrés'.

Lala Rukh’s art practice is intertwined with her lifelong commitments to teaching, activism and the classical music of South Asia, which span the past fifty years.

A film crew disappears in Sharjah while scouting locations for a film based on Ghassan Kanafani’s 1963 novel Men in the Sun.

Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex) tells the story of Simon Fujiwara’s attempt to restage and photograph a lost picture of his mother held in the arms of a Lebanese boyfriend.

These photographs show the Pakistani caretaker of a dilapidated cinema in the town of Khorfakkan, Sharjah.

For Sharjah Biennial 9, Hiroyuki Masuyama recreated a series of lost paintings by 19th century German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich.

Gargash’s photographic works use interiors as frameworks for revealing culture and identity in the UAE in the context of rapid exterior change, while also documenting domestic interiors as they are now.