Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul
16 December 2025 – 29 March 2026
The Farjam Foundation is pleased to announce its participation in PROXIMITIES: Inextricably Involved, a major exhibition of contemporary art from the United Arab Emirates, jointly organized by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) and the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF).
Curated by Maya El Khalil and Eunju Kim, with sections developed in close collaboration with artist-curators Farah Al Qasimi, Mohammed Kazem and Cristiana de Marchi; and the artist trio Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian, PROXIMITIES brings together more than forty UAE-based artists across three generations. The exhibition examines how personal, social, and urban worlds intersect under conditions of rapid transformation, migration, and globalization, proposing “proximity” as a critical space of encounter rather than a fixed geographic measure.
Installation views courtesy of Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA).
Photo credit: Dongwoong Lee Studio.
The Farjam Foundation contributed two seminal works by Hassan Sharif (1951–2016), widely regarded as a foundational figure of conceptual and experimental art in the United Arab Emirates.
Presented within the exhibition’s broader exploration of artistic genealogy and influence, Sharif’s works underscore his enduring role in shaping critical, process-based practices in the region. His engagement with language, repetition, and everyday materials resonates strongly with the exhibition’s thematic focus on systems of meaning, translation, and relational thought, particularly within the section that reflects on artistic lineages and conceptual frameworks emerging from the UAE since the 1980s.
Through its participation in PROXIMITIES, the Farjam Foundation reaffirms its long-standing commitment to supporting and lending historically significant works that illuminate the development of modern and contemporary art in the Middle East, while contributing to international dialogues through institutional collaboration and museum exchange.
To learn more about the exhibition, please visit:
https://korearoundculture.com/project_en/37