Two Suns in a Sunset Opens at Jeu de Paume, Paris

Overview

Originally on view at Sharjah Art Foundation from March – May 2016, this major exhibition of work by Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Two Suns in a Sunset opened at Jeu de Paume, Paris, on June 7, 2016.

The exhibition features a range of works produced from the late 1990s to the present day including works on paper, photographs, sculpture, sound and video installations and two new video works ISMYRNA, co-produced with Sharjah Art Foundation and the Jeu de Paume, and Remembering the Light. A number of the works had been produced or commissioned for past Sharjah Biennials and several are now part of the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection.

Accompanying the exhibition is a publication functioning as a guide for the eponymous exhibitions as well as a monograph of their work, Two Suns in a Sunset, written in the three languages of the artists— Arabic, French and English—includes contributions by Hoor Al Qasimi, Philippe Azoury, Omar Berrada, José Miguel G. Cortés, Okwui Enwezor, Marta Gili, Boris Groys, Nat Muller, Anna Schneider and Brian Kuan Wood.

The exhibition is on view in Paris through September 25, 2016 and will then travel to the Haus der Kunst, Munich in October, and to the IVAM, Valencia in 2017.

This presentation of Two Suns in a Sunset was curated by Marta Gili and organised by Jeu de Paume, Paris.
The exhibition has been coproduced by the Jeu de Paume, Paris, the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, the Haus der Kunst, Munich and the Institut Valencia d’Art Modern.

Curated by Marta Gili (Jeu de Paume), Hoor Al-Qasimi (Sharjah Art Foundation), Anna Schneider (Haus der Kunst Munich) and Jose Miguel G. Cortes (Institut Valenica d’Art Modern).