150 spectators in a grand ballroom in New York enjoyed the first concert in the city since the outbreak of the pandemic more than a year ago, with preventive measures including the presentation of certificates confirming that they had received the anti-corona vaccine or a negative examination that was conducted no more than six hours ago.
Some had hoped that this Friday evening would restart celebrations in the American cultural capital, after it had been suspended since March 2020.
For forty years, Sfeir-Semler Gallery has served as a gateway between the Middle East and the global art world, shaping contemporary Arab discourse while amplifying voices that might otherwise be lost.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.
Set along the quiet coastline of Kalba, Of Land and Water unfolds as more than an exhibition—it becomes a meditation on everything that moves, settles, erodes, and transforms. Drawing from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, the show assembles large-scale works that explore how land and sea shape identity, memory, and the fragile geographies we call home.