More than 20 works highlight the interconnection between art and design forms and real life
Dubai Design.. Sculptures and installations that tell stories from the cultural heritage
Sarah Al Rayes presented a design that she formed from traditional fishing cages after adding some contemporary touches to them.
Photography: Ashok Verma
Shahd Al-Sudais shed light on the volume of construction and demolition waste, both in the Gulf and internationally.
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The “Ring of Life” was designed from embroidered textiles in a poetic style in the form of a punching bag, and gave visitors the opportunity to write a word that angered them and let it go.
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In the corridors and streets that separate the buildings of the Dubai Design District, the installation works are distributed within the "Dubai Design Week", which addresses, through the language of creativity, issues related to the environment, life and human concerns, as well as works derived from the cultural heritage of the Arabian Gulf and desert nature.
From a variety of materials between wood, fabrics, iron and lighting, the more than 20 works were built in an interactive way that attracted the interest of visitors to the exhibition, to interact with it and leave them in front of many questions on the one hand, and highlights the interrelationship between art and design forms and the reality of life.
"The Gargour"
Under the title "Al Gargour", designer Sarah Al Rayes presented a design that she formed from traditional fishing cages after adding some contemporary touches to them.
Al Rayes presented the design within a space that highlights the success of art in reformulating discarded materials, where fishing nets have been transformed into chairs and tables, and a space for sitting and working.
Al Rayes aimed to shed light on the heritage related to hunting and its importance in the lives of ancestors, and to reconnect the public with these traditional tools, in light of the development witnessed by contemporary life. He supported her in presenting the message that she occupied the interior spaces of the design with a group of woven works of palm fronds and weaving.
In the context associated with traditional life, he presented the work “that of the forest”, which is designed in the form of the Ghaf tree that grows in the desert, as it is made of wood and ropes. .
environment concern
This concern related to the environment and its preservation is underlined by several works, including the work designed in the form of a rectangular canopy loaded with more than 2.5 tons of construction waste, which raises questions about the fate of the materials and opportunities for their recycling.
The founding partner of Quartz Architects, who designed the work, Saudi engineer Shahd Al-Sudais, told Emirates Today, "We wanted to shed light on the volume of construction and demolition waste, whether in the Gulf or globally, with more focus on the Gulf because the construction process in it continues." In Saudi Arabia in particular, 32 neighborhoods were recently renovated in the city of Jeddah, and the volume of waste from this project is huge without a plan to reuse it.”
Construction waste
She pointed out that the work, entitled "How much do construction waste debris weigh?", was designed from construction waste that was not easy to obtain, and adopted a simple design form in order to focus on the canopy and put visitors in a sensory experience, so that those who pass under the corridor feel the weight Waste weight.
Al-Sudais stressed that art cannot be separated from architecture, and it is necessary to raise awareness about environmental issues through art and design, praising the selection of Dubai Design Week for the theme of impact and the environment this year.
"Suhail"
As for the Emirati designer, Reem Al-Bustani, she worked on providing a design of lighting, under the name “Suhail”, and explained the idea of her work, saying: “I started to design lighting in the recent period, and that is why, through my third participation in Dubai Design Week, I presented a design for external lighting inspired by The star of Suhail, and for this reason I used a height of two meters and 20 centimeters in height of the design with a diameter of three meters.”
She pointed out that the design was inspired by the sound frequencies of the sea wave. With the emergence of the Suhail star, the hunting and farming season begins, as well as the falcon hunting season. Its appearance in Emirati culture is linked to goodness, expressing that its designs often come from the marine environment that affected it a lot.
She stressed that she had put 14 heads in the design, in which the lighting was distributed between "LED Light" and blue lighting, to give the work the color of the sea and the color of stars.
She saw the Design Week as a unique opportunity to learn about the work of designers from different countries of the world and exchange experiences.
life issues
Life issues were not absent from the installation works, as designers Hoda Baroud and Maria Hebri, founders of the “Bokja” studio, presented a human message aimed at expressing anger, through the “circle of life” designed from embroidered textiles in a poetic style.
The two designers designed the ring, which was taken from the shape of the boxing ring, and gave visitors the opportunity to write a word that angered them and left it on the boxing bag.
Huda said: "In fact, we worked through Bokja to present artworks and designs of embroidered textiles, and through this arena we wanted people to express anger, and there are many influential messages left, most of which were personal messages."
While Maria confirmed that the design was implemented through old tools that were taken from a second-hand store, where an old boxing bag was relied upon, and they worked on adding and embroidering textiles to give it a new look and consolidate the concept of recycling.
Islamic inscriptions
From the world of designs that are concerned with the environment and life, Joseph MacIver takes us to the world of Islamic inscriptions through the work designed in the form of doors and arches, taking its basic form from the geometric patterns derived from the Umayyad era in the seventh century.
The design is entitled "Umayyah" and embodies his four-year journey between Dubai, Cairo, Morocco and Cordoba in Spain, where he gathered his experience and culture around Islamic inscriptions.
McIver executed the designs from clay, using colors that take us on a trip to a group of countries, such as the azure blue in Isfahan, and the orange present in Marrakesh.
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