Sharjah Art Foundation Opens Solo Shows by Ahaad Alamoudi and Jorge Tacla

The Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) is presenting two concurrent solo exhibitions by Ahaad Alamoudi and Jorge Tacla, exploring resilience, identity, and the aftermath of destruction. Alamoudi's 'Sunkissed' features recent works and six new commissions that examine collective identity and visual expression amid the Gulf's rapid transformation. Using humor, appropriation, and critical distance, the artist incorporates Khaleeji pop culture elements—talking falcons, toy cars, and light-up insect traps—as tools to navigate social change. The exhibition runs until May 3, 2026. Tacla's retrospective 'Time the destroyer is time the preserver' gathers over 70 paintings and 100 works on paper from the mid-1980s to today. The title quotes T.S. Eliot; the show is structured in eight sections addressing hierarchies of human suffering and false victim-perpetrator binaries. Tacla depicts buildings and landscapes 'in negative,' defining subjects through absence of color, creating meta-images that explore how events are inscribed in consciousness. The exhibition includes urban landscapes devastated by political and natural disasters in Aleppo, Beirut, Gaza, Homs, Oklahoma City, Santiago, and the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Japan. It runs until June 7, 2026. SAF also announced the 2026 reopening of Al Majarrah Park, redesigned by SUPERFLEX with landscape architecture studios, featuring undulating paths and monumental sculptures inspired by everyday objects.