This year’s edition of the Sharjah Biennial is as cutting edge as ever. Most of the artworks were commissioned especially for the event. More than fifty artists from around the world were invited to take part in the 12th contemporary art exhibition in the United Arab Emirates under the theme “The Past, the Present, the Possible”.
Among the works on show is Congolese rapper Shoggy Angoy’s: “This performance is called the “funeral fanfare”. It’s a performance that mixes dance, music and theatre. Why is it called “funeral fanfare? We are trying to reproduce a reality which has become a ritual back home in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where, for a funeral, people no longer turn up to sympathise with the family of the deceased, but to show off their smart clothes, their designer labels,” he explains
Argentinian artist Eduardo Navarro worked with children to devise his installation where blindfolded players roll an enormous blue ball over a grid floor. The ball’s movements are deter
