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FEATURES02Director of SAM, Mr. Tan Boon Hui, said, “As an emerging arts scenesharing many similarities with the development of contemporary artin Southeast Asia, as well as the shared Arab heritage, the exhibitionclearly showcases how issues of identity and representation arerecurrent concerns that face contemporary artists around theworld. With this exhibition, we also aim to encourage discourse anddiscussion on how history and social realities are presented andre-presented in our inter-connected world today.”The exhibition features key works by artists such as Jananne Al-Ani,Huda Lutfi, Hassan Sharif and Sharif Waked, drawn from the BarjeelArt Foundation, the Abraaj Group Art Prize Collection, Mathaf: ArabMuseum of Modern Art, Musée national de l’histoire et des culturesde l’immigration, CNHI Paris, as well as the collections of privateindividuals and artists.02Elshaab by Moataz Nasr.03Fatalite by Adel Abdessemed.04Plotting Table by Mona Hatoum.05The Lebanese Rocket Society – A Carpet byJoana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige.06Democracy is Coming by Huda Lutfi.03Majority of the works were created in the last five years, offering awindow to this emerging contemporary art scene and the issues,ideals and challenges that contemporary artists are engaging withtoday. Terms & Conditions is an open-ended debate about therepresentation of history, identities and social realities, especiallythrough the works of artists with links to the Arab world. Althoughhistory and geography are powerful forces shaping contemporarypractise today, the artists in this exhibition also grapple with thechallenges of speaking to the world beyond their specific localities,36 MUHIBAH