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In keeping with its efforts to promote the upcoming edition of the Sharjah's Children Biennial, organised by Sharjah Children's Centres in collaboration with the Sharjah Museums Department (SMD) from 9 December, 2014 to 9 February, 2015, the Biennial team recently conducted a new art workshop, titled “60 Seconds of Invisible Paining”, with the participation of a group of children and families in Abu Dhabi.
The workshop was conducted as part of Abu Dhabi Art, which was organised by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority from 5-8 November.
The move comes as part of ongoing efforts by the Sharjah Children’s Biennial, the first biennial dedicated exclusively to children in the GCC countries and the sole one in the UAE, to expand its scope of art events across the country, so as to be showcased during its fourth edition under the theme “Questions”.
Children participating in the workshop were given the opportunity to draw a variety of topics, such as a child's face, some animals and geometric figures or different shapes available in the surrounding environment through five boxes. Each of the boxes took the shape of a platform with a box equipped with a mirror on the top, allowing participants to look through it and draw inside the box. The boxes matching children’s heights carried phrases like: Draw, ask me, expressions, and pictures, among others.
The workshop also explored the idea of writing a few questions in children’s mind and giving them the opportunity to touch something hidden inside the box and paint it without knowing what the object is.
The event also featured many other ideas that revolved around the main topic of this year’s Children’s Biennial. The workshop attracted young adults along with children who expressed their delight with the fun idea.
Emirati artist Nasser Nasrallah, Curator of Sharjah Children’s Biennial, said, “The experience itself was new to the children because it separates the senses. Usually, when we draw anything in front of us, we look at the shape and then the paper. But here we look at the shape only and leave the hand to paint alone freely. Of course, the results were not as drawings look like in reality, which is the idea behind conducting this workshop, in order to create new forms that make us contemplate artworks deeply.”
Children’s artworks during the two-day workshop on invisible painting will be showcased as instalments in the Sharjah Children’s Biennial, which will take place next month.
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