Venue:
Arsenale

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Artist:

Lamya Gargash
* 1982 Dubai, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
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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