UAE Unlimited is a satellite platform with a mission to nurture and develop emerging artists in the UAE. ‘Bayn: the In-Between’ is a collaboration between UAE Unlimited and a number of UAE-based artists, curators, and institutions, highlighting the collective nature of the creative community in the UAE today.

The exhibition is being developed with the support of Maraya Productions in Sharjah. Maya Allison, Founding Director of NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, is the Senior Curatorial Adviser to the project and mentoring the exhibition’s curator Munira Al Sayegh.

The participating artists represent a wide range of creative practices that explore the various reactions to the transformations happening today in our society. These include Emirati installation and multi-media artist, Asma Al Ahmed, Iraqi architect and designer, Hatem Hatem, Emirati musician and sound artist, Maytha Al Shamsi, Jordanian portrait artist, Saif Mhaisen, Emirati textile artist, Sara Al Haddad, Syrian landscape artist and designer, Talin Hazbar, Bahraini-American documentary artist, Nasser Al Zayani, and Emirati architect and illustrator, Talal Al Ansari.

Speaking ahead of the exhibition, Shobha Pia Shamdsani, Executive Director of UAE Unlimited said, “Through UAE Unlimited’s partnerships with local initiatives in the UAE, we are able to offer emerging artists the advantage of working directly with experienced creative professionals whose insights are invaluable to the development of these young artists.”

Maya Allison, Senior Curatorial Adviser, said, “An exhibition of emerging artists on this scale is a major, exciting undertaking, particularly with nine entirely new works being produced. Munira’s curatorial concept and commitment to the creative vision of these emerging artists is commendable, as is the commitment of H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan and Shobha Pia Shamdsani to the support of emerging artists, and now emerging curators, in the UAE.”—WAM

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Queues stretched out the door of the nostalgic 1980s-themed arcade hangout “GIF Paradise” by UAE-based artist collective Satwa 3000. Stepping into the mysterious themed rooms, groups of friends and families recorded and shared short and playful animated GIFs on social media.

From the Burning Man collective in the USA to the Dubai Design District (d3), the gigantic, origami-inspired kinetic and interactive mushroom sculptures “Shrumen Lumen” are illuminating and stunning visitors with illumination patterns that respond to visitor movements with its changing colours and shapes.

Spread across the central meeting point of the d3 is the beautiful, hand-painted, three-dimensional artwork in form of the “Sun Canopy”. Created by combining futuristic architectural designs with a visionary art movement, the vivid, majestic sheets are designed to transform the viewer’s perception of space as the pieces dance with the wind and captivate while static.

Inside the glimmering forest of wooden columns called “Luster,” by Sharjah-based architect Noor Jarrah, visitors underwent a reflective journey through the natural experience of shadows mimicking movements. Upon reaching the destination, visitors could climb, sit, or play on the sculptures.

Montreal- based artist Mathieu Le Sourd creates an immersive, audiovisual experience for the audience attending Meetd3 with “Light Sowers”. The experience captures a poetically-led interactive escape inspired by the frail beauty of fireflies and the mysterious atmosphere that they bring to the ordinary world. Felt through sensory touch pads, users control light dancing through liquid-filled lightbulbs in a dark, UV-light led room.

Taking over the first floor of building four is a monumental, inflated silver sphere “Osmo” brought to Meetd3 by Loop.ph. This captivating experience offers guests and visitors a moment of calm and relaxation as it creates an encapsulating experience under the stars as the structure creates a projected universe under its enveloped casing with visual effects and ambient soundscapes from outer space.

Under the guidance of Czech master artists Lasvit, which recently debuted glass sculptures at the Dubai Opera, visitors at the “Lasvit Glass Experience” blew, twirled, and transformed raw glass into objects.

There will be a host of additional local and regional talent at Meet d3 this weekend.

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