Lawrence Abu Hamdan
4 March - 4 July 2022, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE. The largest institutional solo exhibition by the artist to date. Curator: Omar Kholeif.
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A Thousand White Plastic Chairs, 2020
Single-channel video with colour and sound; 13 minutes.
Installation view: The Sonic Image, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2022. Supported by Gray Centre for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut/Hamburg.
Also included in this body of work (The Witness-Machine Complex) is A Thousand White Plastic Chairs (2020). This video documents a live performance in the dark where the artist’s own voice is subjected to similar treatment of the flashing yellow and red lights—both disrupting and informing his speech and thought. Here, the artist draws correlations between human cognition and technological travelling of data through wires at 4600m/s, and their inherent asymmetry.
© Booklet Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Sonic Image
Sharjah Art Foundation, 2022
© Photos: Danko Stjepanovic. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
4 March - 4 July 2022, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE. The largest institutional solo exhibition by the artist to date. Curator: Omar Kholeif.