The Emirati Scene
The Emirati Scene at Iyad Qanazea Gallery presents a group exhibition that celebrates the depth, diversity, and evolution of artistic expression in the United Arab Emirates.
Bringing together a multigenerational group of artists from within the Emirates, the exhibition offers a vivid representation of the country’s creative landscape, one shaped by civic-ness, identity, openness, and a bold contemporary vision.
Through painting, sculpture, mixed media, and conceptual works, the Emirati scene highlights the unique voices that continue to define and expand the UAE’s cultural narrative.
More than a survey of contemporary Emirati art, this exhibition is an act of civic ideation.
The works gathered here move between the personal and the collective, the rooted and the expansive. Each artist engages with the UAE not merely as geography
or backdrop, but as a living, contested, deeply felt civic space long alive in their sense of home, interrogation, and imagination.
artists from West Asia, North Africa, South Asia and global south
The gallery’s mandate is to showcase a variety of artists from West Asia, North Africa, South Asia and extending into the Global South at large. Abu Dhabi is a city of crossroads and one that has spread its arm for this region and the gallery wants to be a beacon that conveys the same spirit. Starting with the rooted stories of the city by works from artists that were the leading pioneers of thought, poems and paintings in Abu Dhabi such as the veteran artist and poet Mohammed Al Mazrouei to other voices from the region both young and established that carry through their contemporary voices the hopes and dreams for a new world of peace and prosperity.
Group Exhibitions
In the darkness of souls
Mohammed Al Mazrouei
Nov 17, 2023 – Feb 1, 2024
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