2014
Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority
and Cultureshock Media
Hardcover
212 pages
286 × 220 mm
Every artist has an ‘unrealised’ project. These secret works that are too unwieldy, too nascent, or simply too costly to take to completion constitute a source of wonder in current artistic discourse. Maverick interviewer Hans-Ulrich Obrist, for example, unfailingly asks artists about their unrealised work in his countless conversations; it is his sole recurring question. The third edition of Emirati Expressions, subtitled Realised, ingeniously taps into this fascination with the unfinished: six stalwarts of UAE conceptual art unearthed projects that were either on hold or in their heads, just waiting to be nudged into fruition.
[Universes in Universe]
Published to accompany the exhibition Emirati Expressions at Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi. Texts by Rita Aoun-Abdo, Reem Fadda, and Dr Abdul Karim Al Sayed.
