Wael Shawky: Horsemen Adore Perfumes and Other Stories

This exhibition guide documents the artworks that comprised artist Wael Shawky’s 2014 exhibition, Horsemen Adore Perfumes and other stories along with an interview between the artist and the exhibition’s curator Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation.

Shawky uses a range of media such as video, photographs, installations, and performance, to explore issues of history, religion, culture, and the effects of globalisation on society today. This exhibition highlighted Shawky’s interest in how history is rewritten, documented, and interpreted through a series of video installations, sculptures and drawings, including his new work Al Araba Al Madfuna II, co-produced by the Wiener Festwochen and Sharjah Art Foundation. The exhibition presents other works by Shawky, such as Asphalt Quarter, Dictums and The Cave.