Bold in scale, Sharjah Biennial 16 maps new constellation of voices beyond West-centric lens
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — Tracking down the entirety of Thai artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s “We are lived by powers we pretend to understand,” composed of 10 granite solar panel sculptures in Sharjah, is no simple feat. Rather than one swift trip to a single venue, the journey demands traversing the emirate and seeking out its most unassuming corners — outside a traditional Woman’s House, inside a defunct clinic in an oasis town, within the city center’s metro station and even amid the sand dunes of a desert “ghost village.”
Feb 13, 2025By Park Han-sol
