It allows festival visitors to experience an immersive journey to test the power of technology
Sikka Homes showcases virtual reality trips, metaverses and Gulf arts
House 12 forms part of “Bait Sikka 2022” and showcases a unique virtual space.
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During the Sikka Art and Design Festival 2022, organized by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority “Dubai Culture”, the houses of the historic Al Fahidi neighborhood will host unique artistic experiences that allow visitors to the festival to experience an immersive technological journey to test the power of technology, design their own virtual environments, and experiment with artworks in different stages The installation of interactive spaces, and the exploration of the world of metaverses, and the worlds of the art of the Gulf House.
House 12, which is part of “Bait Sikka 2022” is presenting a unique virtual space, and it is a project of Dubai Culture’s Metaverse developed in partnership with Arhead, a startup company in the United States of America and a leading platform in the virtual world.
The highly-engineered digital space features artworks by local and international artists.
House 12 also includes an exhibition for the "Iris" Art Agency, which highlights the work of a group of artists, including Emirati Aisha Juma and artist Jumaa Al Hajj.
House 28 celebrates outstanding works of art;
Both individual ones and those reviewed by cultural institutions.
It takes its connoisseurs to worlds where they explore design methods in the virtual space, and delve deeper into the innermost human psyche.
Whereas, the work of Ascension allows artist Ayat Dirham (Dominica) to experience a virtual reality that addresses three human senses through different stages of human life.
While the virtual space “Roof” by artist Naya Aslan (Syria) takes the recipient on an unconventional journey of exploration of the senses, while the exhibition “Solitude” by artist Reem Tawfik (Egypt) explores the senses of touch, hearing and sight.
In his project “Unconscious”, artist Georges Kashami (Lebanon) uses a unique technique of “surreal automation to generate a collection containing more than 100 pieces.
The work presents three different versions: physical, digital, and virtual;
Designed for the physical version, selected original individual pieces were created in a tactile manner.
The digital edition shows how this is done on a 2D digital tablet to be displayed on a screen with a printed copy of 48 pieces assembled to create artwork (3x3m) on canvas.
The virtual version provides an immersive experience of the artwork itself using virtual reality settings that allow the visitor to experience the work for themselves.
This version of Sikka features the launch of the 2022 Metaverse Biennale in House 28;
It aims to integrate NFT and blockchain technology to become closer to the technical community around the world.
This exhibition is designed to be one of the largest virtual art exhibitions, as it includes 101 galleries connected to remote communication portals, allowing visitors to move immediately and smoothly from one hall to another.
By decentralizing the concept of art galleries, the 2022 Metaverse Biennale will have a significant impact on the art and culture industry.
This transformation will be reflected in the diversification of the industry by making art available in a positive and encouraging environment.
The installation “Swalif-Modo” by Omar Al Gurg (UAE) is a reflection of the spaces in traditional Emirati homes that invite guests to sit and chat on the spacious balcony of the house.
Guests can then move on to the living room, which has a smaller seat in front of a color show, each color representing a different topic for discussion, and then the bedroom, which is the most private part of the house.
The artist Hammoud Al-Muqbali (Sultanate of Oman) deals in his installation work “Shaving Corner” one of the phenomena that made a difference for young people, especially at the beginning of the crisis.
The closing of barber shops, which prompted them to master their haircuts in their homes, where the results varied between success and failure to abject failure.
The work allows visitors to go back to that period in an artistic way, through which they can live the experience again and in a completely different way, to live the experience of the world without the pandemic.
house 11
This year's edition of "Sikka" celebrates the Gulf artists in House 11, which showcases the works of a group of creative Gulf artists through its exhibition "Before Takeoff".
It is a group exhibition of the Gulf Art Museum curated by the Emirati artist Somaya Al Suwaidi, and it includes five solo artists from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and the work of an Emirati art initiative.
The exhibition depicts artists' experiences during the pandemic, highlighting the positive human traits they would like to include on the new page, life after the pandemic.
laugh laugh
For you the world The idea of the joint artwork “Laugh, the world laughs for you” by the two artists Iman Al-Madfa and Hessa Al-Ali (UAE) focuses on the light at the end of the tunnel, and the room represents the ideas that came to mind many of us during the epidemic, with their negatives and positives.
However, the past two years have shown us that it is important to always focus on the positive side of things no matter what events we may see in the news or experience in our personal lives.
Hence, open gaps in the walls were used to emphasize this perspective.
better days
Ahmed Al-Rifai’s print collection Better Days explores and highlights the novel coronavirus pandemic through a dynamic approach;
Photographing this period in which some found themselves, and others took advantage of it as an opportunity to create a better future for them.
While the Emirati artist Ahmed Al-Mahri, through his artwork “Life is better after (Covid-19)”, depicts the Mona Lisa, wearing a mask, as if it were part of the Corona pandemic.
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