REMAINDER - Sharjah Biennial 16
SB16 Opening programme: 6–9 February 2025
Sharjah City, Al Hamriyah, Al Dhaid, Kalba, Al Madam
and other locations across the Emirate of Sharjah
March Meeting: 7–9 March 2025
Al Qasimiyah School, Al Manakh, Sharjah
April Acts: 18–20 April 2025
Across Biennial venues
to carry a home
to carry a history
to carry a trade
to carry a wound
to carry equatorial heat
to carry resistance
to carry a library of redacted documents
to carry rupture
to carry Te Pō [the beginnings]
to carry change
to carry songs
to carry on
to carry land
to carry the language of the inner soul
to carry new formations
to carry the embrace of a river current
to carry sisterhood and communal connection
to carry the rays of a morning without fear
Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala adn Zeynep Öz, Sharjah Biennial 16 features works by more than 190 participants, including over 200 new commissions, which will be presented across the Emirate of Sharjah.
REMAINDER
"Sevil Tunaboylu brings together visual representations from her daily life, elements from her family history and albums, literary inspirations as well as more direct cues from mainstream historical moments, in order to reveal contemporary social conflicts. Whether telling personal stories of Turkey's educational system or the nation's layered migratory histories, Tunaboylu's practice is deeply embedded in the medium of painting, with a frequent use of sculptural elements. For Remainder (2024), Tunaboylu took her own family's migration history as the starting point. Thinking about the tools that enable such migrations, the artist used a methodology similar to archaeology to unearth material from her family archives. Tools for measuring and symbolic animal sculptures used for guidance were some of the elements that were discovered during these 'excavations'."
Zeynep Öz, 2025
all works are commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and Bao Foundation, supported by SAHA.
