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Sharjah Biennial

In March 2022, the Sharjah Art Foundation convened the March Meeting, an annual gathering of artists, scholars, and curators, around the theme of the “afterlives of the postcolonial.” What would it mean to consider the lasting influence of twentiethcentury independence movements in the Global South through the prism of such pressing debates as climate change and Indigenous rights? A multitude of answers might be found in the Sharjah Biennial 15, , which features the work of more than 150 artists, from the photographers Wendy Red Star

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