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- Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck is an artist.
MAKING NEW TIME@SHARJAH BIENNIAL 14 - LEAVING THE ECHO CHAMBER (intl event)
OVERVIEW
Date | ... closedMar 7, 2019 - Jun 10, 2019 |
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Venue(s) |
Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) |
Curator(s) | Omar Kholeif |
Artist(s) | Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Cory Arcangel, Marwa Arsanios, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, Semiha Berksoy, Candice Breitz, Huguette Caland, Cheng Ian, Shizad Dawood, Stan Douglas, Lubaina Himid, Alfredo Jaar, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Barbara Kasten, Astrid Klein, Marwan, Otobong Nkanga, Emeka Ogboh, Bruno Pacheco, Heather Phillipson, Jon Rafman, Michael Rakowitz, Pamela Rosenkranz, Hrair Sarkissian, Ann Veronica Janssens, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Munem Wasif, Akram Zaatari |
Organizer(s) |
Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) |
Parental |
Sharjah Biennial 14 - Leaving the Echo Chamber |
EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
About Making New Time@Sharjah Biennial 14 - Leaving the Echo ChamberOurs is an age of constant speed; we barely have a moment to breathe. Time is the irreversible, indefinite and continued process of existing in the world. Yet technological, social and political change has altered the means by which we relate to images, objects and the concept of history itself. Spatial and temporal orders have shifted with the advent of a reality that moves like mercury in and out of our hands, flowing into an abyss, a space of chaos—but also toward a new portal, a space of possibility. Reality and history have been augmented by the realm of the virtual. This process encourages us to look back with a critical eye at the history of material cultures as we think we know them. With all this in mind, how do we slow down and ‘experience’ the experience? How do we make ‘new time’?
This exhibition is a provocation. It seeks to show how material culture can be reimagined through the lenses of artists whose political agency, activism and astute observations encourage us to extend the limits of our beliefs. It considers how economies have formed around technological culture, how narrative is created and deconstructed, and how these forces of change enable a reconstitution, or indeed a restitution, of a history lost or even unknown. Drifting in and out of hegemonies and entrenched structures of power, here the sensorial and the bodily intertwine, becoming archaeological sediments in the landscape of Sharjah and imploring viewers to consider their complicity in a world that is forever slipping away.
WORKS (24)

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody(Series: works with no series), 2017
video, Video, 14:42
ARTIST: Michael Rakowitz

Healer(Series: works with no series), 2019
installation, Robot Snake, 1200mm
ARTIST: Pamela Rosenkranz

Various Works(Series: works with no series), 1961
installation, painting, Mixed media
ARTIST: Anwar Jalal Shemza

Various Works(Series: works with no series), 2015
installation, object, video, Chalk on blackboard; gouache on paper, recto and verso; gouache on paper; salvaged school desks, Afr
ARTIST: Kemang Wa Lehulere

Various Works(Series: works with no series), 2018
installation, object, photography, video, Video; black and white photography, multimedia installation; archival pigment print, wooden frame; f
ARTIST: Munem Wasif

Encroachments(Series: works with no series), 2019
video, VR environment
ARTIST: Shizad Dawood

4CC4(Series: works with no series), 2017
photography, Discrete cosine transform, lacquered UV ink on gessoed panel, 1500x1500x51mm
ARTIST: Stan Douglas

Man in Stationary Drawer(Series: works with no series), 2017
painting, Acrylic on wood, 450x365x80mm
ARTIST: Lubaina Himid

Volute(Series: works with no series), 2006
installation, Micro water droplets, air
ARTIST: Ann Veronica Janssens

Construct 32(Series: works with no series), 1986
photography, Cibachrome, 940x745mm
ARTIST: Barbara Kasten

Untitled, (What are you fighting for)(Series: works with no series), 1988
painting, Acrylic, quartz crystal, alabaster plaster, zinc white on canvas, 1500x2045mm
ARTIST: Astrid Klein

Untitled(Series: works with no series), 1969
painting, Oil on canvas, 960x1300mm
ARTIST: Marwan

Puff !!!(Sissiphilous(Series: works with no series), 2018
painting, Oil on canvas, 1700x1600mm
ARTIST: Bruno Pacheco

Various Works(Series: works with no series), 2017
installation, video, Mixed media, single-channel video
ARTIST: Jon Rafman

Eux(Series: works with no series), 1975
painting, Oil on linen, 1003x1003mm
ARTIST: Huguette Caland

Emissary Forks At Perfection(Series: works with no series), 2015
video, Live simulation and story, infinite duration, sound
ARTIST: Cheng Ian

Aging Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past(Series: works with no series), 2019
sculpture, sound, Multi-channel sound installation, sculpture and light installation, poetry
ARTIST: Otobong Nkanga

Cyclonic Palate Cleanser(Series: works with no series), 2019
installation, Monitors, speakers, burned bread, printed paper, black coir mat, brown coir mat, soil, towels, umbre
ARTIST: Heather Phillipson

33 Women(Series: works with no series), 2014
installation, photography, 33 framed pigment prints, 198 light projectors, 198 tripods
ARTIST: Alfredo Jaar

Photoshop CS: 84 by 144 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Spectrum", mousedown y=12100, x=26340, mouseup y=12100, x=42000; tool "Wand", select y= 12100, x=20000, tolerance=94, contiguous=on; default gradient "Spectrum", mousedown y=24(Series: works with no series), 2019
painting, Mixed media, Variable size
ARTIST: Cory Arcangel

Various works(Series: works with no series), 2017
installation, video, Video and installation
ARTIST: Marwa Arsanios

Mother and I(Series: works with no series), 1974
painting, Oil on hardboard, 700x1000mm
ARTIST: Semiha Berksoy

Digest (detail)(Series: works with no series), 2019
painting, acrylic paint
ARTIST: Candice Breitz

Once Removed(Series: works with no series), 2019
Audiovisual installation
ARTIST: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
2019(1)
- Making New Time@Sharjah Biennial 14 - Leaving the Echo Chamber (artist, intl event)
2019.03.07 - 2019.06.10
... closed
Sharjah Art Foundation(1)(24)