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Outstanding HIPA Grand Event Ceremony in Dubai

The HIPA Grand Event Ceremony in Dubai presented stunning photography by top artists and a spectacular programme from the Third Season 2013-2014 within the next categories: Creating the Future, General, Black and White and Street Life, as well as the Grand Prize and the Special Awards for important contribution to photography.

SIKKA Art Fair 2014 kicks off with compelling showcase of artworks

SIKKA Art Fair, the contemporary artist-led fair of the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s dedicated Authority for culture, arts, and heritage, has opened on March 16, 2014 with a multicultural and compelling showcase of artworks and the largest line-up of activities to date.

Steve Sabella: Fragments

The first UK solo exhibition by Palestinian artist Steve Sabella opened at BERLONI. As an artist who has lived in constant ‘mental exile’, Sabella seeks to photographically record and stabilise the very dislocation, that a Jerusalem born individual seemingly eternally ‘on the road’ has encountered.

Testament to the Symbiosis of Difference

"The conceptual ambiguity of the resulting patterns, a theme also represented in the large projects I have created over the years, create an interactive experience in which the onlooker’s subjective experiences of alienation and belonging become part of the piece and its identity." (Anila Quayyum Agha)

Sabrina Amrani Gallery at Art14 London

Sabrina Amrani Gallery attends for the first time an art fair in London, participating in the section London First of Art14 London, presenting art from South Asian artists along with works by Arab Mediterranean artists. From the minimal handmade drawings by Waqas Khan (Pakistan) to the high end special effects videos by Larissa Sansour (Palestine), through the elegant painting on glass by Nicène Kossentini (Tunisia) and the ongoing series of memorial plaques with absurd open ended statements by UBIK (India).

4th PechaKucha Night in Sharjah

Maraya Art Centre, the innovative contemporary visual arts hub and initiative by the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) – hosted the fourth edition of the popular and innovative PechaKucha Night Sharjah.

Nargess Hashemi: ‘The Pleasure in Boredom’

Nargess Hashemi’s work is characterized by its biting, yet loving take on ordinariness. Using commonplace materials like felt pens, acetate, tracing and wrapping paper, the young artist’s scenes of everyday family life express both quietude and anxiety and depict a world in which affect and memory and dream and reality often overlap. The references to Iran are many, from the figures drawn from Qajar-era painting to the styles of clothing or domestic architecture depicted. Pattern was inevitably always present, but it has become the dominant and sole theme in Hashemi’s new carpet series on view in 'The Pleasure in Boredom' (January 12 – February 27, 2014), her current solo show at the Isabelle van den Eynde Gallery in Dubai.