Raffles The Palm Dubai, is collaborating with Hunna Art to host an incredible exhibition by four of its finest emerging local artists.
Raffles The Palm Dubai, the palatial luxury beachfront resort located on Palm Jumeirah’s West Crescent is collaborating with Hunna Art, a renowned contemporary art gallery, to host an incredible exhibition by four of its finest emerging local artists starting from 27th January 2022 until March 23rd.
Through a finely curated exhibition, the four artists in the spotlight – Alia Zaal, Eman Ali, Alymamah Rashed and Talin Hazbar, will offer a unique insight into the Gulf’s contemporary art scene, a sensorial experience for both, guests staying at the hotel and art enthusiasts who wish to visit.
The resort will host a series of talks at the majestic Blüthner Hall, tailored to attract an audience of curious art connoisseurs. Led by Gallerist Océane Sailly, founder and director of Hunna Art, the inaugural talk will deep dive into the topic of “Women in arts and the GCC – Past, present and future” at 4.30pm on 27th January.
The exhibition will showcase a new body of work from Alia Zaal, a multidisciplinary artist who, through her works, examines the historical boundaries of both urban and natural environments of her native country, the UAE. Exploring the connection between vision and perception, her work tracks the interplay between digital and analogue. This new body of work will be comprised of oil paintings based on personal photographs and each painting is inspired by a social event in the life of the artist, thus presenting a unique insight into local customs, whilst Alia Zaal’s characteristic blurred viewpoint preserves the identity of the protagonists.
Omani visual artist Eman Ali will exhibit her captivating installation in the East Wing of the property. She centers her research around Khaleeji iconographies and cultural symbols which are inherently connected to her roots. Her examination of such symbols dismantles multilayered ideologies of power, politics, representation, and gender performance. Using a multiple disciplinary approaches with text, sound, image-making to light installation, Eman Ali’s work highlights sensory mediums to question cultural complexities by exploring their manifestations in the geographical context of Khaleeji societies and the Arab world as a whole.
The exhibition will also highlight a new body of works from Kuwaiti visual artist, Alymamah Rashed, who looks into the discourse of her own body as a Muslim Cyborg, fluctuating between east and the west. As a Muslim Cyborg, she collides her cultural references of home, between Kuwait and New York, and with the history of Islamic spiritualism. Her work negotiates her female subjectivity, regional folklore, and the everyday banal objects that Alymamah Rashed encounters as well as the rapid social shifts that she has witnessed, such as the fast industrialisation of the Gulf region. Alymamah’s artworks will be showcased in the West Wing of the resort.
Also exhibiting, Dubai-based Syrian artist, Talin Hazbar will reunite sculptures that connect with the artist’ surrounding landscapes and intricate materiality of the natural formations. Through her research-based study of architecture, Talin Hazbar seeks to unmask the context of landscapes, material properties and organic processes. Showcased in the hotel’s club and garden, her sculptures will be playing with the ever-changing natural light and architectural elements of the Club while transporting the majestic UAE landscape within the hotel.
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