62 worldtravellermagazine.comTHREE WAYS TO EXPERIENCE ABU DHABI...Artistic inspiration
Explore the UAE capital's eclectic arts scene, from contemporary gallery
showcases to cultural pop-ups, and snapshots of history with a global perspectiveWORLD TRAVELLER X DCT ABU DHABIPhoto:
Project Warehouse by Festember
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Project Warehouse. Yas
Island welcomes back
the popular Festember
pop-up event with a vibrant
celebration of contemporary
culture covering art, cuisine,
fashion and design, from
15-18 May. Art themes for
2019 range from female
empowerment to rural
Emirati populations with
local and international artists
taking part in the four-day
event. Los Angeles-based
artist Oliver Coreaux is flying
in to handpaint a collection
of luxury handbags and
accessories with a visual
collage comprised of text
and symbols.2
Louvre Abu Dhabi.
The museum's first
photography exhibition
explores the development
of this fascinating art form
from its earliest beginnings.
Entitled 'Photographs 1842 –
1896: An Early Album of the
World', the exhibition features250 images from across
the globe including Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, India and the
Philippines. The works on
show mainly originate from
Musée du Quai Branly –
Jacques Chirac’s collection,
which includes some of
the earliest photographs
produced outside of Europe.3
Warehouse421. A hub
for regional talent, this
Mina Zayed located
gallery is showcasing six
forms of writing as part
of its Nomadic Traces:
Journeys of Arabian Scripts
exhibition. Works by nine
GCC and Levantine artists
are on show, including 'Yad'
by Margherita Abi Hanna,
which draws on the abstract,
simple geometry of ancient
Phoenician text to Khalid
Mezaina's 'If Speech Is Silver'
piece, featuring a trio of
Musnad and Aramaic printed
textiles with silver as the
starting inspiration.