Wided Khadraoui
March Meeting Papers is a series of essays selected from Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Meeting 2021 Open Call, which invited artists, writers and thinkers to expand on curator Okwui Enwezor’s influential thinking about the biennial as a platform to engage with history, politics and society. Taken together, the series reveals the extent to which the biennial, such as the Sharjah Biennial now celebrating its 30th anniversary, has contributed to the realisation of new narratives and experiences of modern and contemporary art.
Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Meeting is an annual convening of artists, curators and art practitioners from around the world who ...
To Avoid or To Embrace? addresses the objectification of Middle Eastern and North African artists in the Western-centric art sector. The essay offers an opportunity to expand the art market ecosystem by encouraging the inclusion of minority artists, gallerists, curators, cultural workers and spaces operated by people of colour.
