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Titled “Horizon in Their Hands: Women Artists from the Arab World (1960s–1980s),” the show runs until February 14, 2026.
The exhibition repositions Iraq as a vital site of cultural innovation and resistance, reclaiming its impact on modern art history.
Nadia Saikali, born in Beirut in 1936, is a pioneer of Arab abstract art, whose canvases echo emotion, memory, and movement.
The exhibition introduces contemporary art from the Barjeel Foundation, with a focus on the overarching theme of "Boundaries" as both a subject and a tool for meaningfully accessing a diverse array of art from the SWANA region.
The exhibition "Parallel Histories: Works from the collection of Barjeel Art Foundation" at the Sharjah Art Museum has displayed a selection of works by prominent Arab artists.
Drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, artworks in the exhibition reflect the manifold ways in which artists in the Arab world have responded to socio-political events and the human condition across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.