The Sharjah Art Foundation is organizing the fifth session of the annual artistic book exhibition “Point of Meeting”, during the period from 25 to 27 November 2022 at the Obaid Al Shamsi House in the Arts Square.
The exhibition expresses the Foundation’s commitment to qualitative and experimental practices that seek to expand the scope of the publishing medium, and attaches special importance to institutions and publishing houses in the Emirates, providing a participatory space to exchange knowledge and constructive ideas.
It also provides a selection of publications that include technical publications and the productions of independent publishers And the non -profit cultural projects, as well as the works of artists, publishers and institutions, which are displayed within three sections: international, chosen, and local.
The “International” department attracts artistic and independent publishing houses from all over the world to display and distribute their books during the exhibition.
The local arts community, including artistic and cultural institutions, galligrities, publishing houses and non -profit governmental cultural bodies, as well as a set of publications, pictures, art magazines, comic magazines, photographs, stationery and screen prints produced by independent artists.
The fifth session program includes many activities that include the launch of new releases such as the book “The Flying Aid” and “Corniche 4”, in addition to dialogues with artists and writers, where the translator and author Bakhita Al-Amiri discusses her translator project “Cinema Code”, and provides Toma Birlanda and Meghan Hu- Tong, their book “The Right on Earth: Paths through Palestine and South Africa”, which reviews ways that embody the knowledge of the land and the landscape reclamation through research and artistic practices, while the platform “Forest Corikmmel” displays a research photo magazine consisting of eight sections of artists and shareholders from South and Southeast Asia On the ways adopted by the nation -states to reproduce colonial and pre -colonial violence, the artist Khalil Rabah reviews his artistic monogography, which includes selections of its practice and opposition over the past 25 years.
The program includes artistic workshops for young and families that deal with the basics of drawing and graphic design, book binding methods and a notebook manufacturing using recycled paper, and children’s stories read sessions, in addition to a number of musical performances offered by: “Swiz and Edgaz”, Adega, Adega, And the “Hosni” band..
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