Experiments and Objects 1979–2011: Hassan Sharif

ArtAsiaPacific
Sep 30, 2013 3:48AM

Like much of the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates is a hotbed of misconceptions. Commonly reduced to images of metastasized construction projects, frenzied consumerism and a rampant money-buys-everything worldview, the country suffers from the preconceived notion that culture—contemporary art included—suddenly appeared ex nihilo and was slapped onto its sprawling map a decade ago. 

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