PCAI supports SERAPIS MARITIME, who will be participating in the Sharjah Biennial 16 with their new project MOTHER TRADE. Opening in February 2025, Sharjah Biennial 16 will be curated by: Natasha Ginwala (Artistic Director, COLOMBOSCOPE, Colombo); Amal Khalaf (Director, Cubitt, London and Curator at Large, Public Practice, Serpentine Galleries, London); Zeynep Öz (independent curator, Istanbul and New York); Alia Swastika (Director of the Biennale Jogja Foundation, Yogyakarta); and Megan Tamati-Quennell (curator of modern and contemporary Māori and Indigenous art, New Zealand). The curators will propose distinct but interconnected projects that will together represent a diverse and global range of perspectives across the spectrum of contemporary art.
SERAPIS MARITIME (dir. by Krini Dimopoulou, Dimitra Dimopoulou and Manolis D. Lemos) is a hybrid art, design and fashion entity based in Greece, producing work inspired by the industries related to the sea, in narrative structures and through a constant upcycling of both materials and ideas, gradually creating an expanded contemporary seascape, distributed and communicated through multiple channels. MOTHER TRADE is a work comprising a collection of garments and objects, alongside a series of public gestures facing the port of Sharjah. Created through collaborations with local producers, craftspeople and the Maritime Academy of Sharjah, the work is a tribute to the maritime history and the many layers of trade in the region. For MOTHER TRADE, the artists sourced materials from Sharjah’s shipyards and industrial facilities. The result is an immersive environment blurring experiences of space between store, showroom, exhibition and public sitting area. A series of public structures are formulated into modular arrangements made from blocks of used clothing transportation bags, collected from local garment redistribution facilities. They serve as sculptures for observation and contemplation, offering different viewpoints of the water and the port. The signage lightwork overlooking the sea is conceived as a collaborative sculpture, a poetic phrase addressed to the port and its people, made from wooden boat scraps, metal and light.
Sharjah Biennial 16 will take place from 6 February to 15 June 2025. Find out more.
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