{"id":60523,"date":"2025-02-09T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?p=60523"},"modified":"2025-02-12T18:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:46:16","slug":"sharjah-biennial-prize-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/sharjah-biennial-prize-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharjah Biennial Prize winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sharjah Art Foundation announced Aziz Hazara, Pallavi Paul and Pratchaya Phinthong as winners of the Sharjah Biennial Prize<\/strong> during the opening gala dinner of the Biennial\u2019s 16th edition last week <\/strong>(no, we weren\u2019t invited, since you asked).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winners were selected by architect\/curator Paula Nascimento<\/strong>, co-curator of the award-winning Angola Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale; Eungie Joo<\/strong>, formerly Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at SFMOMA, and curator of Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015); and Gerardo Mosquera<\/strong>, one of the Havana Biennial founders and co-curator of the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aziz <\/strong>Hazara<\/strong> has a modest yet dynamic installation in the Old Al Jubail Vegetable Market to chronicles the afterlife of Bagram, site of notorious US and NATO military installations during the Afghan war. Hazara\u2019s I Love Bagram <\/em>(2025 \u2013 above), Bagram Field Notes <\/em>(2021\u2013ongoing) and other works ruminate on the impact of military intervention through what is left behind \u2013 clothing, tools and other everyday goods, creating a radical archive of knowledge and resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her contemplative installation comprised of Reckoning<\/em> (2024), Afterglow<\/em> (2024), and the film How Love Moves <\/em>(2023), Pallavi Paul<\/strong> shows us how life exists in death and death in life. Her moving film portrays gravedigger Shamim Khan, who together with his colleagues buried more than 4,000 people who lost their lives due to COVID-19 and the ethno-nationalist violence that followed the Delhi riots in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off the UAE\u2019s coast, divers working with Pratchaya <\/strong>Phinthong<\/strong> have installed an underwater steel structure connected to a solar panel. Slabs of coral brick \u2018harvested\u2019 from the walls of the heritage area serve as a bed for repopulating coral in the Gulf. Together with 10 granite solar panel sculptures placed around Sharjah, his work We are lived by powers we pretend to understand <\/em>(2024) reflects on art, science and the true meaning of heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SB16 looks at how we navigate life within spaces that are not our own and how we respond to these spaces through the cultures we hold. The title \u2018to carry\u2019 asks what we bring with us when we travel, flee, survive or stay; \u201cthe Biennial therefore becomes a space for collective wayfinding, helping audiences make sense of the world by reflecting back, inwards and across in times of transition\u201d says the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The works in the Biennial \u2013 more than 650 of them, including more than 200 new commissions \u2013 are presented alongside a programme of activations, performances, music and film in more than 17 venues across the Emirate of Sharjah, including sites in Sharjah City, Al Hamriyah, Al Dhaid and Kalba. Free and open to the public, Sharjah Biennial 16 runs from 6 February to 15 June. More details are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clockwise, from left: Cassi Namoda<\/strong>, Kala vanga heti<\/em>, from \u201cCarapau in the deep abyss,\u201d 2024: commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Alia Farid<\/strong>, Chibayish<\/em> (still), 2023: commissioned by The Vega Foundation and Doha Film Institute. Michael Parek\u014dwhai<\/strong>, He K\u014drero P\u016br\u0101kau mo te Awanui o Te Motu: Story of a New Zealand river<\/em>, 2011. Akira Ikezoe<\/strong>, Bears on the Diagram of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant<\/em>, 2021\/2024: commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. G\u00fcne\u015f Terkol<\/strong>, Gori Leso Leso<\/em>, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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