In the Heart of Another Country – Erzählungen aus der Diaspora – Werke aus der Sharjah Art Foundation Collection/ The Diasporic Imagination

“In the Heart of Another Country” explores the concept of home as a feeling of longing and belonging among artists from various diaspora communities. Exhibition and book are devoted to the question of the ways in which physical movement – mobility across national borders – has shaped the conditions of international contemporary art. On their migratory routes the artists crossed South and West Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Most of them now live scattered all over the world and far from the places to which they originally felt they belonged. With 150 works from the international collection of the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, “In the Heart of Another Country” presents the work of more than 60 artists working in every medium. Many of these works have rarely or never been exhibited outside their original context. The exhibits range from newly restored installations to recent acquisitions, linked by a shared narrative of belonging – frequently against a background of political unrest and social conflict. “In the Heart of Another Country” stands for the aim of the Sharjah Art Foundation to use its collection to show art that posits East–East and South–South alliances and to bring these together at a point of intersection, in order to create fertile ground for a polyphonic and inclusive art history.

Artists:
Bani Abidi, Sarah Abu Abdallah, Etel Adnan, Latif Al Ani, Khadim Ali, Halil Altindere, Minam Apang, Rasheed Araeen, Thuraya Al Baqsami, Shiraz Bayjoo, Semiha Berksoy, Huma Bhabha, Huguette Caland, CAMP, Tony Chakar, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tiffany Chung, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Simone Fattal, Marcos Grigorian, Abbas Habiballa, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rokni Haerizadeh, Taloi Havini, Susan Hefuna, Adam Henein, Lubaina Himid, Emily Jacir, Hayv Kahraman, Ali Kazim, Amal Kenawy, Aisha Khalid, Anuar Khalifi, David Koloane, Farideh Lashai, Tala Madani, Taus Makhacheva, Jumana Manna, Marwan, Ibrahim Massouda, Ahmed Mater, Ahmed Morsi, Fateh Moudarres, Michael Rakowitz, Marwan Rechmaoui, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Mohan Samant, Hrair Sarkissian, Hassan Sharif, Wael Shawky, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Ahmed Shibrain, Shahzia Sikander, Rayyane Tabet, Richard Lokiden Wani, Nari Ward, Lionel Wendt, Kamal Youssef, Akram Zaatari

Exhibition:
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 28/10/2022 – 14/3/2023