Sharjah Biennial 14

Leaving the Echo Chamber

Festival: 7 Mar 2019 – 10 Jun 2019

Sharjah Biennial 14

Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) will feature nearly 90 established and emerging artists from around the globe, over 60 new commissions, as well as many never-before-seen works in the next Sharjah Biennial. Open to the public from March 7 to June 10, 2019, the 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB14), Leaving the Echo Chamber, will explore the possibilities and purpose of producing art when news is fed by a monopoly of sources, history is increasingly fictionalised, when ideas of ‘society’ are invariably displaced, when borders and beliefs are dictated by cultural, social and political systems.

Artists

Works

  • Machine Matter, Single channel, 14m05s, BW, Stereo, Loop, 2017, Video, black and white photography, multimedia installation; 14 minutes 5 seconds., © Munem Wasif
  • Alia Farid: Production still for At the Time of the Ebb, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Imane Farès. Photo: Farah Al Adsani
  • Specters of Noon (video still), 2019. Courtesy of the artists © Allora & Calzadilla
  • Nomads of the Sea (video still), 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Artprojects © Lisa Reihana
  • Meiro Koizumi: The Angels of Testimony (video still), 2019. Courtesy of the artist, Annet Gelink Gallery and MUJIN-TO Production
  • Construct 32, 1986. Cibachrome; 94 x 74.5 cm. , Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami. © Barbara Kasten
  • Marwa Arsanios: Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and coproduced with Onassis Fast Forward Festival 6, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Vooruit Belgium Courtesy of the artist and Mor-Charpentier Gallery Who is Afraid of Ideology? part 1 (video still), 2017. From ‘Who is Afraid of Ideology?’. Video installation; 23 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Mor-Charpentier Gallery
  • Once Removed (production still) 2019. Courtesy of the artist © Lawrence Abu Hamdan
  • Uriel Orlow , The Crown Against Mafavuke, 2016 , Two-channel video installation with sound , 30 minutes 50 seconds , Dimensions variable , Commissioned by The Showroom, London in association with Parc Saint Léger, Contemporary Art Centre, Pougues-les-Eaux, France; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne Courtesy of Mor Charpentier Gallery, Paris and LaVeronica Gallery, Modica, Italy and the artist
  • The Otolith Group , The Third Part of the Third Measure, 2017 , HD video , 50 minutes , Commissioned by ICA Philadelphia and Sharjah Art Foundation , Courtesy of the artists