Installation view: “In Absence and in Presence: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection”, Aranya Art Center Guangzhou, March 22 - August 30, 2026, Photography Liu Xiangli
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige participate in In Absence and in Presence, a group exhibition at Aranya Art Center, Guangzhou, featuring over 70 works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection.
In ‘Absence and in Presence’ charts the ways in which land can be reimagined, redefined and reclaimed through the work of artists from West Asia, South Asia, Africa and its diaspora. Taking its title from Egyptian artist, poet, and writer Ahmed Morsi, whose multidisciplinary practice has long engaged with questions of displacement and the persistence of place, the exhibition unfolds through thematic constellations that explore the interrelations among land, the people who inhabit it, and the imagination that animates it.
The exhibition is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Damien Zhang with May Alqaydi and Souraya Kreidieh, as well as Li Fangwen and Li Xinyang.
The exhibition is on view until 6 August 2026.
Visit the Aranya Art Center website for more information.
