Sikka Art... Contemporary creations from the heart of Dubai's heritage buildings

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The 10th edition of Sikka Art and Design Festival, organized by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, is located in the Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, loaded with many art exhibitions, workshops and interactive performances, as well as a space for installation works that interact with lighting in a charming way.

This session sheds light on the young group of artists, and the works are spread among the corridors of heritage houses to blend the spirit of contemporary art with the features of heritage and Emirati originality, imposing a scene that distinguishes this festival from other art exhibitions that are held during the art season.

The Executive Director of the Arts and Letters Sector at the Culture and Arts Authority, Saeed Mubarak Khalfan Kharbash Al Marri, spoke to the UAE today, and said: "The Sikka Festival has developed in this session, and the design aspect has been added to it, which is an important category, and we witness in this session the presence of participants in the field of design in three houses. In addition to a house that displays virtual world arts, and a house dedicated to Sikka, this is what made Sikka an annual platform aimed at developing art.”

Kharbash emphasized that Beit Sekka dedicates throughout the year to present what is new, as the Sekka platform will be dedicated to emerging artists, and will guarantee them the platform that displays their works.

Regarding the houses in Sekka, Kharbash stressed that the main things in the festival are the Sekka House, the House of Design and New Media, the Gulf House, cinema and animation, and other houses that show the most important contemporary works.

The number of participants reaches 158 artists, with an increase in the number of participants from Arab and Gulf countries residing in the country and the region, in addition to eight initiatives, 12 external events, six mural works and more than 60 theatrical performances, in addition to the placement of participants in the culinary arts category.

The artist Jassim Al-Awadi participated in a series of his works in which he talks about the concept of memory, and he talked about his works for "Emirates Today", and said: "My works express the concept of retrieval, where I retrieve ideas after a long time has passed, because after we recover our ideas we feel that The ideas that were neglected were very important, and these works in the exhibition are old pictures that I retrieved and added to them so that I can give them a new dimension, especially since they are two-dimensional.”

Al-Awadi pointed out that the symbols that he placed on the paintings are inspired by the spirit of tattoos, as Arab women are distinguished by their desire for tattoos, beautification, as well as the strength of Arabic letters, and this highlights the development in work.

Al-Awadi used the paper that is used to make “sketch”, but it was bent and fixed as if it was paper that had been thrown before.

For her part, Emirati artist Sarah Ahli spoke about her work, noting that she worked on real balloons after filling them with stickers, and then cement was placed and built the huge installation work that weighs 150 kilograms, especially as it contains a stainless steel base and a quantity of cement, to Column side ensures balloons are stacked on top of each other.

My family confirmed that she loves balloons, and she used them at work because they symbolize happiness and fun, and people may not express them in this way.

She confirmed that Sikka is a distinguished exhibition and is participating in it for the first time through her first sculpture, explaining that she has studied fashion design, and will combine art and fashion in the future.

As for the Russian artist, Evgenia Silvina, she also presented an artwork of balloons, titled “Entanglement.” The work was inspired by a physical theory based on the fact that any two elements, if they are continuous, even if they are far from each other, they interact in the same way.

She pointed out that the colored balls, each one of them symbolizes the mind, and each ball constitutes consciousness, and therefore passing close to the installation work, one's shape will be reflected on one of the balls and automatically on the other balls, explaining that the tree carrying the balls symbolizes the biological source of man. , while the black dot at the end symbolizes the unknown and mystery.

Silvina confirmed that the materials she used were imported from China, and the balls were fixed to the tree, stressing that the place means a lot to her, and the tree that was dedicated to setting up the work was her favorite tree in all of Dubai.

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