For the 9^th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, the curators Isabel Carlos and Tarek Bout El Fetouch, as well as the artistic director, Jack Persekian, have left behind the traditional formats that choose a subject as the starting point and have moved towards a format closer to the competition that will exhibit a number of works chosen through an open process. 

The program includes the exhibition entitled “Provisions for the Future”, curated by Isabel Carlos, which has turned into a place devoted to the production and development of art works within the specific context of Sharjah. The Spanish artist from Donosti, Maider López, is included among the invited artists. It is not the first time that López presents her work in this city as she worked here during her residence in the Gulf through the Lab Project in 2006/07.

As well as the exhibition of the works of over eighty international artists, a series of activities has been planned in order to support the creation and creativity of the different participants. An example is the March Meeting, which becomes an opportunity for the network development. As well as with the symbolic delivery ceremony of the torch of Arab culture from Damask to Jerusalem, it coincides with Art Dubai 2009, hoping that the visitors of the city will discover the different cultural projects that are taking place in the region.

Maider López (San Sebastián, 1975) will perform three interventions in the city of Sharjah. With Football Field (2007/09) she constructs once again the football pitch she did two years. She painted a field right in the square next to the art museum of the city. As she before, the urban furniture stays in its place, interrupting the vision, complicating spaces, inviting those who want to use the square to question its sense. The walls the artist puts up at the Sharjah Art Gallery for Walls (2009) invite us to reflect once again on the definitions of spaces, also alluding to works and post-minimalist theories. Fountain (2009) constitutes a continuation of the ideas and concepts that Maider López explored for the first time in her football field; that could even be considered the sequel of an imaginary diptych. In a city surrounded by deserts, where access to water is a difficult task, placing a fountain of drinking water for the thirsty football players of the nearby pitch is little less tan a provocation.

For the 9^th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, the curators Isabel Carlos and Tarek Bout El Fetouch, as well as the artistic director, Jack Persekian, have left behind the traditional formats that choose a subject as the starting point and have moved towards a format closer to the competition that will exhibit a number of works chosen through an open process. 

The program includes the exhibition entitled “Provisions for the Future”, curated by Isabel Carlos, which has turned into a place devoted to the production and development of art works within the specific context of Sharjah. The Spanish artist from Donosti, Maider López, is included among the invited artists. It is not the first time that López presents her work in this city as she worked here during her residence in the Gulf through the Lab Project in 2006/07.

As well as the exhibition of the works of over eighty international artists, a series of activities has been planned in order to support the creation and creativity of the different participants. An example is the March Meeting, which becomes an opportunity for the network development. As well as with the symbolic delivery ceremony of the torch of Arab culture from Damask to Jerusalem, it coincides with Art Dubai 2009, hoping that the visitors of the city will discover the different cultural projects that are taking place in the region.

Maider López (San Sebastián, 1975) will perform three interventions in the city of Sharjah. With Football Field (2007/09) she constructs once again the football pitch she did two years. She painted a field right in the square next to the art museum of the city. As she before, the urban furniture stays in its place, interrupting the vision, complicating spaces, inviting those who want to use the square to question its sense. The walls the artist puts up at the Sharjah Art Gallery for Walls (2009) invite us to reflect once again on the definitions of spaces, also alluding to works and post-minimalist theories. Fountain (2009) constitutes a continuation of the ideas and concepts that Maider López explored for the first time in her football field; that could even be considered the sequel of an imaginary diptych. In a city surrounded by deserts, where access to water is a difficult task, placing a fountain of drinking water for the thirsty football players of the nearby pitch is little less tan a provocation.