Venue:
Arsenale

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Artist:

Lamya Gargash
* 1982 Dubai, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
more info & photos

Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr
Freelance curator, critic, filmmaker. * 1973, lives in Zürich, Switzerland, and Tehran, Iran.

Commissioner: Dr. Lamees Hamdan
Member of the Board of Directors of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.

As the organizers announced, the first ever UAE pavilion at a Venice Biennale will highlight a "World Fair" theme that will incorporate various components:

- work by Lamya Gargash

- a documentation-performance of the announcing press conference for the UAE National Pavilion in Venice by the Jackson Pollock Bar (Germany)

- a Kiosk by Hannah Hurtzig (Germany), featuring conversations with 5 key figures in the cultural panorama of the UAE

- a (digital) showroom of work by several UAE artists, including Hassan Sharif, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Ebtisam AbdulAziz, and Huda Saeed Saif

- scenography reminiscent of the World Fair tradition, including text panels and architectural models of UAE arts infrastructure

For more information, please see:

>> Press release
15 March, 2009

Website: uaepavilion.org

See also in Universes in Universe:

United Arab Emirates in Nafas
Articles on the contemporary arts of the UAE in Nafas Art Magazine, including artists, galleries, institutions, future projects.

UAE - artist's index
All the artists from the United Arab Emirates in Universes in Universe.

Lamya Gargash: Presence
Article and photos. Nafas Art Magazine, July 2008

Hassan Sharif
Articles, photos, information

Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Articles, photos, information

Ebtisam AbdulAziz
Articles, photos, information

Sharjah Biennial
Photo tours and information of all the editions since 2003

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