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Look for Me All Around You is an open platform of migrant images and fugitive forms. Composed of multiple scores drawn from the many scales of Sharjah as city, emirate and peninsular territory, these after-images and after-forms circumnavigate global history, meeting through the confluence of the Gulfs of Mexico and Oman and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in a call-and-response between the Americas and the Emirates.
Par for the diasporic course, the migratory journey, the heretic pilgrimage, Look for Me All Around You takes as a point of departure political activist and pan-African leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr’s (1887–1940) unrelenting address to ‘Look for me in the whirlwind or a storm, look for me all around you…’ (1925). The platform attests to the alternatively dispossessive and repossessive disposition of diasporisation as an aporetic phenomenon of the contemporary, encompassing human, semantic and material forms of displacement.
Access to the venues in the general visual tour, including information and texts from the SB14 Guidebook
Sharjah Biennial 14
7 March - 10 June 2019
Main title: Leaving the Echo Chamber
Curators, exhibitions:
Zoe Butt: Journey Beyond the Arrow
Omar Kholeif: Making New Time
Claire Tancons: Look for Me All Around You