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Sharjah Biennial 16

Glean 7, Spring 2025

Review by Evelyn Simons

‘To Carry’

What does it mean to carry oneself, to carry a home, a heritage, community, hopes, grief, resistance as one navigates life through different places and phases, by choice or by necessity? The 16th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, titled ‘To Carry’, aims to pay tribute to this question through a staggering 650 works by more than 200 artists, selected by five curators and spread across 17 venues — some of them very remote. Hoor Al Qasimi, who manages the biennial through the Sharjah Art Found (…)

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