Fadda established her name through a series of nuanced biennials, including the 2009 Riwaq Biennale, Ramallah (curated with Charles Esche), and the Marrakech Biennale in 2016 (which brought the Moroccan modernists to an international audience). Of late she has carved out a niche shepherding the installation of largescale public works across the Gulf. In January, in her role as director of the Abu Dhabi Culture Programming and Cultural Foundation, she cocurated the inaugural Manar Abu Dhabi, 35 site-specific works spread along a 2.3km route, including light projections, sculptures, installations and performances by the likes of Carsten Höller, Mohammed Kazem, Shilpa Gupta and Team Lab. November, meanwhile, marked the opening of the first edition of the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial, which Fadda also directs: the curator invited some 70 artists from the region and abroad – Farah Al Qasimi, Radhika Khimji and Sammy Baloji among them – to create site-specific installations and performances, bringing contemporary art to the streets of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.