Connecting people through art 

We are glad to announce that Broken Eyes by artist Gabriela Golder, and produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation, in collaboration with the Sharjah Biennial, will be premiered on occasion of this year's Biennale, Thinking Historically in the Present, opening to the public on February 9th to June 11th.



For Sharjah Biennial 15, Golder presents ARRANCAR LOS OJOS (2023), a mixed media project emanating from the mass protests across Chile in 2019, during which more than 400 victims of police brutality sustained eye injuries. Through performance, video and spatial intervention, it reflects on punitive state violence, illuminating the tendency of riot police across contexts—from South America to Hong Kong, Kashmir to Palestine—to intentionally aim for protestors' heads.


Gabriela Golder (b.1971, Buenos Aires, Argentina) examines the intersection between labour and memory from a wide variety of sources— political, mythical and medical—to highlight the aftereffects left by violent state actions. Investigating how political trauma is wrought upon the body and carried forward, Golder makes disparate connections between seemingly unrelated places and events. Whether analysing the nature of political violence, the impact of labour on the human body or the evolution of collective memory, the artist approaches the subject from many perspectives to cast light in surprising places.
Golder is a professor at the National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, and curator of El Cine es Otra Cosa, an experimental film and video series at the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires.