Artnet News published this as-told-to piece, in which Sharjah Art Foundation director Hoor Al Qasimi spoke to writer Cathy Fan about Gulf governments' rising investment in culture and biennial-making, timed to the run of Sharjah Biennial 16.
Illustrating the piece is an installation image captioned "Hashel Al Lamki, Maat, 2025," a work commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and shown at Al Qasimiyah School as part of the biennial, titled to carry and running from 6 February to 15 June 2025; the image credit is the only place the artist is named in the piece, which otherwise concentrates on Al Qasimi's broader argument for regional cultural infrastructure.
Coming from the biennial's own director, the credit line is a useful marker of where Hashel Al Lamki now sits within Gulf institutional programming, and it corresponds to Hashel Al Lamki Presents at Sharjah Biennial 16, the commission of Maat that Tabari Artspace represented at Al Qasimiyah School.
