U.A.E. Unlimited Arab Exploration: A Public Privacy

A Public Privacy is a group art exhibition curated by Cristiana de Marchi and Mohammed Kazem. Bringing together recent works along with commissioned projects by a group of emerging Emirati, locally based and GCC artists, A Public Privacy is the inaugural exhibition launching U.A.E. Unlimited Arab Exploration, a new platform promoted and under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan.

The inaugural exhibition, A Public Privacy, addresses issues of the artists’ self-positioning in the public arena, and of the mediation between the private sphere that is dominated by traditional values and the public context which is clearly influenced by Western-modular social patterns.
Indeed the youngest generation is more exposed to the contradiction between these two dimensions and spaces. This is a group that needs to investigate and search for responses that are neither obvious nor granted in the local environment and require a personal questioning and discussion about self-positioning within sometimes-uncomfortable zones. 

The concept of the show also revolves around the relation engaged, through the artwork, between the artist and the audience and, implicitly, to the self-questioning which necessarily drives artists’ choices when it comes to expressing their concept and approach to sensitive subjects.

U.A.E. Unlimited Arab Exploration is an open format platform focusing on the emerging generation of Emirati, UAE based and GCC artistic talents. A new regular presence on the UAE visual art scene, U.A.E. Unlimited Arab Exploration is inspired by a wish to support the youngest generations of local visual art practitioners. The platform aims to grant national and international exposure to art professionals for young artists, as well as offering them opportunities for a wider representation and promotion at an early stage in their careers, creating a regular exhibitive and curated platform to coincide with the main events characterizing and defining the Spring art season in the United Arab Emirates.