DIBAI DUBAI

Dubai means different things to different people. Eight artists explore their relationship to contemporary life in the UAE considering both past and present, modernity and tradition. Dubai Dubai is a multi-disciplinary show that aims to examine the perspective of artists working and living in the UAE. This emerging city has transformed itself in merely 25 years, attracting an influx of both aspiring residents and tourists, embracing modernity whilst still preserving tradition and demonstrating to its neighbors that modernity and tradition can co-exist.

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Participating Artists information:

 Shaqayeq Arabi (resident) – this talented artist examines the role of the ordinary man and his relationship to his surroundings. Each and every one of us, whether tourist or resident, implicitly or explicitly experiences Dubai as an emerging city, meaning: roads are constantly changing, trucks are backed-up for miles causing endless traffic jams – all comes…