Our very own Niño Consorte was chosen as one of the UAE-based photographers commissioned by Volkswagen for Made for Life campaign. In VW’s virtual gallery, Niño showcased his talent in street photography. He drove across Dubai with the iconic VW Golf GTI and captured the city and its people.
Hum II by Hajra Waheed at Sharjah Biennale 15
Highly acclaimed and celebrated, Sharjah Art Foundation’s #SB15 exhibited works by artists from all over the world. One of the most visited parts of the biennale was a 2023 iteration of Hum by Hajra Waheed. All the way to Sharjah, Ismail Noor and John Gatapia captured and conveyed the essence of a monumental piece.
Hum II (2023) is a musical composition and multichannel sound installation. The work specifically reflects on women’s leadership in the struggles of working people, the marginalized and the dispossessed and how their participation is rarely made visible, let alone amplified or centred. Consisting entirely of voice, the composition features seven songs that have been central to popular uprisings, mass social movements and anti-colonial struggles across the Americas, Africa and Asia where women have been at the forefront. Expanding on Hum (2020), this second volume housed within a conical sound chamber, continues to explore humming and other vocal practices as a means for centring intersectional solidarity struggles currently taking place.
The world is slowly but surely starting to get back to normal, and all over the UAE events finally started coming back to life. Here is a collection of our favourite event work from 2021.
