As part of its summer program, the Sharjah Art Foundation opened the Sharjah Exhibition, the 7th annual initiative for photography, which will last until October 6th, in galleries 1 and 2 in the courtyard of Al Marija.
For the first time this year, no specific theme has been identified. The open invitation has been extended to include not only residents in the UAE and the GCC, but also those wishing to participate from around the world.
The exhibition will feature 36 photographers from more than 20 countries presenting their work on a range of social, intellectual and aesthetic themes through a wide range of styles, such as conceptual photography, street photography, landscape, city and portraiture. In both digital and film photography, such as montage, collage, archive reconstruction, and optical drawing.
«Between water and the homeland» .. is the work of the artist Majd Alloush, which depicts the refugee crisis through his vision and approach, where the images aim to convey the emotions of the mother and daughter during the journey through the water away from the homeland, and create Alush group in a surreal way by putting things in positions other than Familiar, such as the bed in the middle of the sea or the naked eye figures.
In her work, Mahra al-Muhairi seeks to document an old war dance using a gun called Magma to motivate the soldiers. This folkloric dance is performed on special occasions such as weddings, festivals and national holidays.
In the Hochmar series, Muhammad Altom is close to the Nubian migratory communities, which originate from the ancient Nubian civilization scattered throughout East Africa as a result of colonization and resettlement. Today they are in Sudan, Egypt, Kenya and Uganda. The project presents Nubian cultural practices, Old family and handwritten letters, drawings and poems that Altom found between his father's legacy after his death.
While Saleh Bashir in his work «seekers of the homeland» regain the feelings of alienation and unity and weakness of belonging and the overwhelming desire to return to his homeland Sudan. To overcome his feelings of alienation, Bashir maintained ties with his country and began to see himself through other Sudanese refugees. The aim of this work was to challenge some stereotypes about Sudan.
In her work "The Last Gallabiya", Hanna Gamal explores rural life in different cities throughout Egypt. Women in these agricultural areas still wear jalabiyas, which were considered to be worn throughout Egypt, but began to fade in the main cities today. Jlabia colors and different patterns have a character and a story of their own, and each of the women is a flower, and without them there will be no cultivation, no colors and no greenery.
Lachine Ogunbano combines classic photography and fashion photography to create opaque images with faint colors in his work Come See Me, which explores the culture surrounding brides and marriage ceremonies in Nigeria. Ogunbano's interest is to expand the contemporary African visual archive by documenting the traditional wedding dresses of the Yoruba and Igbo tribes Hausa - Violani and others.
"At the time of retreat" is the work of artist Huda Abdel-Mghani, which documents the celebrations of the village of "Salakh" all summer after the head of the year fishermen. In honor of the generosity of nature, people stop fishing during this day, fishing is the profession they earn their day's contention, and among the celebrations a group of characters in the crowd engage, to excite and frighten everyone on their way.
Olgatch Bozaleb, through his work Konya Boys, Women in a Tank, Rifles, and Rain Jacket, aims to explore migration issues and the various reasons people drive them, and to undertake such trips, in addition to forced migration of individuals in communities Witness the expulsion of the poor to the benefit of the rich, or escape from areas of ongoing conflict.
• For the first time, no specific theme has been identified for the exhibition, and the invitation has been extended to those who wish to participate from around the world.