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Sharjah Biennial offers lessons for Singapore from a desert oasis
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Indigenous Australian artist Megan Cope's installation at Buhais Geological Park is part of Sharjah Biennial 16, the Arab world’s biggest contemporary art event.
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SHARJAH (United Arab Emirates) – A forest of poles festooned with oyster shells sprouts from rocky soil. This striking sight in Sharjah’s Buhais Geological Park is an art installation by indigenous Australian artist Megan Cope.
Her work, referencing the deep history of Aborigines whose shell middens date back 29,000 years, resonates with the site, a 93 million-year-old seabed which holds ancient marine fossils as well as evidence of human habitation from the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages.
