Novità dal Padiglione UAE

 

The National Pavilion UAE’s upcoming exhibition at the Biennale Arte 2022 titled Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset will present a new body of work for the National Pavilion UAE, an installation of human-sized, abstract and organic sculptural forms by veteran Emirati artist, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim. Curated by Maya Allison, the work draws from Ibrahim’s deep connection to the local environment of his hometown, Khor Fakkan – a city harbouring the rocky Al Hajar mountains on the east coast of the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

 The 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will be curated by New York based Italian curator and artistic director Cecilia Alemani under the theme, The Milk of Dreams, which questions the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses, and the connection between bodies and earth. In resonance with this theme Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s biomorphic sculptures cluster in undulating color and movement – suggesting bodies, mutation, and metamorphosis.

 
The exhibition marks Ibrahim and Allison’s fifth collaboration together and the third book that Allison has worked on that studies Ibrahim’s work. The exhibition’s accompanying publication, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset / Works: 1986-2022, is the first monograph of Ibrahim’s work. It is co-edited by Maya Allison and Cristiana de Marchi and includes commissioned new texts that comprehensively explore Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s work, representing a major contribution to the UAE’s art history, documenting and archiving part of the country’s long-standing experimental art community.
 
Key dates - Biennale Arte 2022:
National Pavilion UAE’s exhibition inauguration: 20 April 2022 at 11 AM
Preview days: 20 – 22 April 2022
Public opening: 23 April – 27 November 2022

Passage, the National Pavilion UAE’s well-received exhibition at the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2019, created by Nujoom Alghanem and curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, will be presented as part of Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Festival exhibition, Portrait of a Nation II, from 21^st  January 2022 – 16^th April 2022 at Manarat Al Saadiyat. This presentation follows the exhibition’s first show in the UAE at Abu Dhabi Art in November 2021.
 
Passage expands Alghanem’s experimentation with contemporary Arabic poetry through the language of film. Taking her quintessential 2009 poem, The Passerby Collects the Moonlight, as a point of departure, this installation explores the universal experience of displacement.