In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises
The most extensive presentation of works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection to date is on view in Sharjah following its debut at Deichtorhallen Hamburg in October 2022.
In the Heart of Another Country explores the concept of home, of longing and belonging. Drawing inspiration from the late artist and author Etel Adnan鈥檚 landmark memoir, In the Heart of Another Country (2004), the exhibition charts sentiments of longing, memorial and homecoming through a constellation of artworks that unfold across borders, both real and imagined.
The exhibition brings together more than 150 artworks by over 60 artists. Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection included in this choreographed scenography span from 1935 to the present and have traversed routes from Colombo to London, from Cairo to Zanzibar through to the foothills of Mount Tamalpa茂s in California, and back again. What unites these myriad artworks, and their makers, is the emirate of Sharjah, which has historically served as a site of encounter and exchange amongst artists and intellectuals, fostering an ongoing space for the diasporic imagination to come to life.
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The most extensive presentation of works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection to date is on view in Sharjah following its debut at Deichtorhallen Hamburg in October 2022.
In the Heart of Another Country explores the concept of home, of longing and belonging. Drawing inspiration from the late artist and author Etel Adnan鈥檚 landmark memoir, In the Heart of Another Country (2004), the exhibition charts sentiments of longing, memorial and homecoming through a constellation of artworks that unfold across borders, both real and imagined.
The exhibition brings together more than 150 artworks by over 60 artists. Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection included in this choreographed scenography span from 1935 to the present and have traversed routes from Colombo to London, from Cairo to Zanzibar through to the foothills of Mount Tamalpa茂s in California, and back again. What unites these myriad artworks, and their makers, is the emirate of Sharjah, which has historically served as a site of encounter and exchange amongst artists and intellectuals, fostering an ongoing space for the diasporic imagination to come to life.
Artists on show
- Abbas Habiballa
- Adam Henein
- Ahmad Shibrain
- Ahmed Morsi
- Ahmed Omar Addow
- Akram Zaatari
- Ali Kazim
- Amal Kenawy
- Amir Nour
- Andreas Gursky
- Anuar Khalifi
- Anwar Jelal Shemza
- Bani Abidi
- Bertina Lopes
- CAMP
- Dana Awartani
- David Koloane
- Etel Adnan
- Fahr-el-Nissa Zeid
- Farhad Moshiri
- Fateh Moudarres
- Halil Altindere
- Hamed Nada
- Hassan Sharif
- Hayv Kahraman
- Helen Khal
- Huguette Caland
- Huma Bhabha
- Ibrahim El Salahi
- Ibrahim Massouda
- Joana Hadjithomas
- Kamal Youssef
- Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq
- Khalil Joreige
- Latif Al Ani
- Lionel Wendt
- Lothar Baumgarten
- Lubaina Himid
- Marcos Grigorian
- Marwan
- Marwan Rechmaoui
- Meschac Gaba
- Michael Rakowitz
- Minam Apang
- Mohamed Abdrassul
- Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mohammed Kazem
- Mohan Samant
- Mona Saudi
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
- Nam June Paik
- Nika Oblak
- Novera Ahmed
- Omer Khairy
- Primoz Novak
- Rasheed Araeen
- Richard Bell
- Rokni Haerizadeh
- Rushdi Anwar
- Saloua Raouda Choucair
- Semiha Berksoy
- Simone Fattal
- Sonia Balassanian
- Tala Madani
- Thomas Demand
- Thuraya Al-Baqsami
- Tiffany Chung
- Tony Chakar
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