Dates
ifa Gallery Berlin
19.5. – 20.8.2006
ifa Gallery Stuttgart
10.11.2006 – 7.1.2007

Worlds of Islam

Nafas
Contemporary Art from the Islamic World

Artists

Nur Hanim Mohamed Khairuddin

Waheed Malullah

Anas Al-Shaikh

Suha Shoman

Number and Lifetime, 2005

Ebtisam AbdulAziz

Born in 1975 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; lives in Dubai.

The artist has photographed approximately 2.000 hands in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. On chart sheets, sorted alphabetically in 27 files, she recorded the name, the date of birth, the nationality and the occupation of the respective person. "I wanted to show the mark of time, work and personal history on people’s hands, and create an archive that reflected the age and social differences of a portion of Sharjah’s population, highlighting in particular the differences between the old and the young, the healthy and the somewhat physically disabled, and people from higher social classes and the workmen who lead difficult lives and do extremely physical labour."

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Further information

Online magazine

The exhibition "Nafas" is part of a project that is conceptually connected to the online magazine "Contemporary Art from the Islamic World". The magazine is published by the ifa in collaboration with Gerhard Haupt and Pat Binder.