• DAY 01/20 | Hassan Sharif | Four Bright and '555', Made in China (2007)

    In 2005, Sharif wrote that “even our dreams are held hostage by consumerism.” His assemblies of cheap everyday materials were...
    In 2005, Sharif wrote that “even our dreams are held hostage by consumerism.” His assemblies of cheap everyday materials were proposals for shifting those dreams elsewhere. Today, the consumer goods he wove together, like this simple arrangement of single-use aluminum food containers, evoke monuments to the aftermath of rapid transit and flow of people in and out of the UAE. If the artist were alive today, would he have used the debris of drones and missiles that hold our dreams hostage to transform our sense of everyday reality?
     
    Duygu Demir, Art historian and curator