EXHIBITION

Sharif Waked: Zanga Zanga

Chelouche Gallery, 01/26/2012 - 03/10/2012

ABOUT

Sharif Waked (born in Nazareth, 1964) has exhibited at various biennials, museums, and art venues in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States such as: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Queens Museum of Art, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Tate Modern, London; Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia; Paris Photo, Carrousel Du Louvre; Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE; Museum of Modern Art of Algiers; The Seconde Riwaq Biennale, Ramallah.

Waked’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY); Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE); Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la création (Paris); Israel Museum (Jerusalem); Queensland Art Gallery, (South Brisbane); and the Barjeel Art Foundation (UAE) among others.

The works included in the exhibition "ZANGA ZANGA" share parallel themes - representations of moments of collapse, ghosts, hybridity, repetition, and transitions between languages - while reenacting iconic political events, some of which occurred in the Arab world this past year.

The exhibition features the following projects:

1. Contribute a Better Translation, 2011
2. Beace Brocess, 2010
3. You Are My Life, 2011
4. Paradise Square, 2011
5. The Battle of the Camel, 2011
6. To Be Continued..., 2009
7. Away From You, 2011
8. Visit Palestine, 2011

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