artist research

26.12.2019 - Rain room, Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival & Sharjah Art Foundation

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21/09/2018 - Gallery Visit: Ways of Seeing, NYUAD Gallery, Abu Dhabi.

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Fred Sandback and Hassan Sharif fulfilled my vision

Gustav Metzger challenged my thinking

Grayson Perry tickled my fancy

David Claerbout blew my mind

James Turrell comforted my soul.

Grayson Perry, A Map of Days, 2013, etching from four plates, 119.5 x 161 cm (my photos of artwork)

James Webb, Scream, 2008, signed certificate, speakers, assorted wires, audio, museum barrier, dimensions variable (my photos of artwork)

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Cindy Sherman, Untitled #466, 2008, colour photograph, 246.1 x 162.6 cm (my photos of artwork)

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Hans-Peter Feldman, One on One (milky Way), 2012, chocolate box and sign, dimensions variable

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Andreas Gursky, Dubai World I, 2007, c-print, 307 x 223.3 x 6.2 cm (my photos of artwork)

Michelangelo Pistoletto, METRO QUADRATO INFINITO, 1966/2018, sculpture, string, 240 x 240 cm (my photos of artwork)

Gustav Metzger, To Walk Into - Massacre on the Mount, Jerusalem, November 8, 1990. 1996/2018, photograph on PVC and linen cover, 238 x 395 x 30 cm (my photos of artwork)

David Claerbout, The Algiers' Section of a Happy Moment, 2008, single-channel video projection, b/w, stereo, 37 mins (my photos of artwork)

James Turrell, Alta (Pink), 1968, cross corner projection, dimensions variable (my photos of artwork)

Hassan Sharif, Knots, 2012-2016, cotton rope and stainless steel, 380 x 350 cm (my photos of artwork)

Sharif fills the space - the opposite of how I'm told he was as a person. The rope and knots are so clear yet lost in mass. It was higher when I saw it last - it took up less floor space and it felt like you could walk in to it - this feels deflated, or maybe growing tired from moving from place to place. 

Fred Sandback, Untitled (Sculptural Study, Twenty-two-part Vertical Construction), 1991/2018, black and red acrylic yarn, dimensions variable (my photos of artwork)

I want to lie on the floor, I want to ping it and run about in them.

Not Pictured: Kim Tschang-Yeul - water drop -a painting and a reference - does the artist want you to look at both, are they the same - is one incidence and one action?

Not pictured: Gustav Metzger - Historic Photographs: To Crawl Into - Anschluss, Vienna, March 1983, 1996/2011 - the linen was so heavy, my shoulders ached from bearing the weight - the actual weight and the metaphoric weight - the women in the large photo are scrubbing the floor while children look on - I crawl on top of them struggling to lift the fabric to see them, I haven't seen them before, I don't know them but for a moment I'm with them, in a similar position but with the privilege of choice, of participation, rights - can I ever emphasise? do I need to? is the moment enough - a token -its history, past, I cannot change.