Publication

In the Heart of Another Country
The Diasporic Imagination in the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection

Edited by Omar Kholeif

With contributions by Bani Abidi, Nawar Al Qassimi, Sky Arundhati Thomas, Stephanie Bailey, Anne Barlow, Lubaina Himid, Omar Kholeif, Zeina Al Kattan, Chris McCormack, Sarah Perks, Reem Sawan und Sofia Victorino and forewords by Hoor Al Qasimi and Dirk Luckow.

320 pages, with numerous colored illustrations.
In German and English. 24 x 21 cm.
Snoeck Publishing House.

Onlineshop of Deichtorhallen Hamburg
€ 35,00, incl. VAT

“In the Heart of Another Country” explores the concept of home—of longing and belonging—through almost 150 works from 61 artists. The landmark memoir by the late artist and writer Etel Adnan “In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country” (2004) served as a source of inspiration. The exhibition and this publication take us on a journey through time from 1935 to the present, drawing on the collections of the Sharjah Art Foundation. Tracing the migration of artistic forms from the Emirate of Sharjah’s heritage areas to Zanzibar and Cairo, this travelogue extends to the suburbs of Paris, the streets of Harlem, New York, and back again.

Curated and edited by Omar Kholeif.

Included artists - see the list

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Foreword, Dirk Luckow

15
Foreword, Hoor Al Qasimi

19
In the Heart of Another Country
Omar Kholeif

61
Chapter 1
Architecture by Other Means: The Abstract Body Meets the Concrete City

139
Chapter 2
Reclaimed Portraits: Invisible Acts of Repair

219
Chapter 3
Going South: Travels from Gulf to Gulf, from Coast to Coast

289
‘Ifyou meet me on the street, don’t be sure it’s me’.
Sofia Victorino in conversation with: Bani Abidi, Lubaina Himid, Hrair Sarkissian

310
Biographies

315
Afterword: Smile, You’re in Sharjah
Nawar Al Qassimi