Jorge Tacla: Time the destroyer is time the preserver
8 February–7 June 2026
Galleries 1, 2 and 3
Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah
Titled after a line from a T.S. Eliot poem, Time the destroyer is time the preserver examines how enduring truths can be excavated in the aftermath of destruction. Structured as eight chapters, Jorge Tacla’s largest solo presentation to date confronts hierarchies of human suffering; the false binaries of victim and perpetrator; and the structural violence connecting seemingly disparate incidents.
Amid a visual culture dominated by machine vision, Tacla’s paintings reassert the urgency of human memory in navigating the complexities of representation and interpretation. Rather than painting a building or landscape directly, he depicts it ‘in negative’, defining the subject through the absence of colour. In this way, these works operate as meta-images that probe how events are inscribed within individual and collective consciousness.
The exhibition is curated by Her Highness Sheikha Hoor bint Sultan Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, with Abdulla Aljanahi, Curatorial Assistant at the Foundation.
Ahaad Alamoudi: Sunkissed
8 February–3 May 2026
Gallery 6
Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah
Drawing on motifs of the sun, sand and development, Sunkissed examines how collective identity and visual expression intersect amid the Gulf’s rapidly transforming landscape. Comprising recent and newly commissioned works by Jeddah-based artist Ahaad Alamoudi, the exhibition explores strategies of communication, both fluid and fragmented, between speculative futures and venerated histories.
Alamoudi’s vivid snapshots of contemporary Khaleeji aesthetics are infused with humour and pop cultural fluency. Viral memes, talking falcons, automated toy cars and insect light traps function as tools to process accelerating change. Together, the works trace how desires for development are absorbed, mimicked and rearticulated in everyday life, as the artist exposes how narratives of progress circulate and are continually renegotiated within the collective.
Playfully capturing the tension between developmental goals and their real-world manifestations, the exhibition offers insight into the whimsical and often contradictory processes shaping Khaleeji cultural life.
Sunkissed is curated by Amal Al Ali, Curatorial Assistant at Sharjah Art Foundation.
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