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Rain Room, Sharjah

Sharjah Art Foundation presents Rain Room for the first time in the Middle East. The installation is permanently sited in Al Majarrah, Sharjah.

Random International
2012

Rain Room, Sharjah

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The Interview

These opening lines introduce The Interview, an indirect narration of the real-life story of Dr Abdul Nabi, an Iraqi doctor who came to the United States in 2008.

Işıl Eğrikavuk
2008

The Interview
untitled 2015 (Eau de RRose of Damascus)

untitled 2015 (Eau de RRose of Damascus)

Rirkrit Tiravanija
2015

untitled 2015 (Eau de RRose of Damascus) draws inspiration from a fourteenth-century model of a rosewater distillery by Al-Mizzi that Rirkrit Tiravanija encountered at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization.

Is it always there?

Is it always there?

Lee Kit
2015

In his practice, Lee Kit works with everyday materials such as fabric or cardboard to address ordinary daily rituals and the uses we give them.

AT THE RISK OF THE REAL

AT THE RISK OF THE REAL

Cinthia Marcelle
2015

AT THE RISK OF THE REAL (2015) expands on Cinthia Marcelle’s engagement with labour, industrial production and the reciprocity between art and daily life.

XYZ

XYZ

Eduardo Navarro
2015

Eduardo Navarro is interested in social organisation and alternative intelligence and has worked with groups of people in spaces he creates to examine means of communication and thinking.

Planetarium

Planetarium

Adrián Villar Rojas
2015

The practice of Adrián Villar Rojas is marked by large-scale, site-specific interventions that incorporate his fascinations with battling ecosystems, physical decay, unlikely rebirth and man’s interference in it all.

WAM (World Agriculture Museum)

WAM (World Agriculture Museum)

Asunción Molinos Gordo
2010-215

In her practice, Asunción Molinos Gordo questions the categories that define ‘innovation’ in mainstream discourses.

Talking Wall

Talking Wall

Damián Ortega
2015

Talking Wall (2015) continues Damián Ortega’s long engagement with architecture, informal construction and systems of communication

One buries wrinkles and unearths memories

One buries wrinkles and unearths memories

mixrice
2015

To prepare for their participation in SB12, mixrice travelled to Sharjah with one of their longtime collaborators from Bangladesh, whom they met in Maseok, an industrial community outside of Seoul.

Fanfare funérailles [Funeral brass]

Fanfare funérailles [Funeral brass]

Papy Ebotani
2014

Papy Ebotani’s Fanfare funérailles [Funeral brass] (2014) explores a new type of funerary procession that has emerged in the urban centres of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A song connected from A Stage

A song connected from A Stage

mixrice
2006-2014

mixrice has worked with a community of migrant workers in Maseok, an industrial area outside of Seoul, since 2002.

Autoconstrucción

Autoconstrucción

Abraham Cruzvillegas
2015

Autoconstrucción, or ‘self-building’, is an ongoing body of work by Abraham Cruzvillegas that consists of structures in a constant state of construction, destruction, rebuilding and open-ended motion.

Souls’ Landscapes

Souls’ Landscapes

Uriel Barthélémi
2015

Souls’ Landscapes is a three-part performance conceived and performed by Uriel Barthélémi in collaboration with Entissar Al Hamdany, Joel Lokossou, Rigo 23 and Fabrice Taraud.

Study of Karesansui

Study of Karesansui

Taro Shinoda
2013–2014

The work of Taro Shinoda often explores humans’ relationship to nature, science and engineering. Formally trained in traditional Japanese gardening from a young age.

Kora

Kora

Jawshing Arthur Liou
2011

Jawshing Arthur Liou creates video installations that employ digital technology to transform representation and reality.

Karesansui

Karesansui

Taro Shinoda
2015

Karesansui (2015) includes an engawa, or shaded wooden platform, which designates the ideal viewing point of the garden’s slowly expanding voids and offers a calm space of contemplation.

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