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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
Steel Rings

Steel Rings

Rayyane Tabet
2013–

This installation of Steel Rings represents the first sixty five kilometres of the TAPLine from its origin in Saudi Arabia.

The Fourth Stage

The Fourth Stage

Ahmad Ghossein
2015

The Fourth Stage (2015) weaves a complex and unlikely union of illusion and myth between three worlds of which he is concurrently a part.

Our Look Was as If Two Lovers, or Deadly Enemies

Our Look Was as If Two Lovers, or Deadly Enemies

Maryam Kashani
2015

Our Look Was as If Two Lovers, or Deadly Enemies (2015) is a three-channel video installation that juxtaposes two reading performances with more traditional documentary footage.

Before my birth

Before my birth

Adrián Villar Rojas
2012

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.

Use Like Water

Use Like Water

Nikhil Chopra
2015

Use Like Water (2015) is a nine-day performance that begins as a journey and culminates on the upper terrace of Bait Obaid Al Shamsi during the opening days of SB12.

Come to where the flavors are

Come to where the flavors are

Danh Vo
2015

For SB12, Danh Vo assembles the thirteen parts that comprise the Statue of Liberty's ‘armpit’, which towers nine metres high.

An Opaque Wind

An Opaque Wind

Haegue Yang
2015

In her work, Haegue Yang has employed ready-made objects.

The Secession Sessions

The Secession Sessions

Eric Baudelaire
2014-2015

The Secession Sessions is a multipart project that investigates questions of statehood and representation through the prism of statelessness.

In the absence of the objects seen

In the absence of the objects seen

Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
2015

The work of Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri engages questions of the human condition amid a world of increasing speed, scale, automation and accumulation by dispossession.

Plate It with Silver

Plate It with Silver

Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai
2015

Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai’s work Plate It with Silver (2015) is a video set along the northern and southern shores of the Strait of Hormuz.

Incidental Insurgents

Incidental Insurgents

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
2012—2015

The Incidental Insurgents (2012–15) is a three-part installation that spatialises a contemporary search for a new political language and imaginary.

End of Dreams

End of Dreams

Nikolaj Larsen
2015

End of Dreams is a work in various media: sculptural installation, video, audio and photography.

Memories of a Private Eye

Memories of a Private Eye

Rania Stephan
2015

Lebanese filmmaker Rania Stephan’s new film Memories of a Private Eye premiered at Berlinale on February 11, 2015. The film was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.

External Rotation

External Rotation

Mohamed Abdelkarim
2012

Mohamed Abdelkarim engages with notions of authorship and representation, camouflage and concealment, exchange and play.

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