There are just a couple more days left to see Walls and Margins, the current exhibition of work from the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah. If you haven't been yet, make time this weekend. The exhibition is based around the premise of physical walls and barriers such as the Separation Wall in Palestine and more metaphorical boundaries such as a lack of education, inability to travel or segregation within a community.
My personal favourite section is Al Sabr Jameel, or Patience is Beautiful by Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna, which hangs in front of a work by Algerian artist Driss Ouadahi. It summarises perfectly what the exhibition is about because the viewer is forced to look through the mashrabiya of Hefuna's work at the painting behind it, which is both obscured and enhanced by this effect. Ouadahi's work itself is about the planes and levels of our existence and consciousness and the two work very well together.
Suheyla Takesh, the curator of the exhibition has entwined many stories into one show and I would urge you to go and see it if you can.
* For more info visit: www.barjeelartfoundation.org
