Art Dubai & Sharjah Bienneal 2015

This year I visited Art Week Dubai-a week of March madness when the whole city of Dubai is totally submerged in art. I did an art pilgrimage to the Art Fair and took the Art Bus to Al Quoz District,attended Sikka Art Fair and Sharjah Binneale(The Past, The Present, The Possible).I must have seen 3000 works of art in 4 days including performance, installations ,sculpture and digital art.Some art was truly awe inspiring and some utterly banal.Some of the work was powerful on their own and some others the concepts were more powerful than the works themselves.It was an interesting , saturating,overwhelming and exhausting experience.The artists in the fair ranged from very established artists like Damien Hirst to freshly out of college like C Unnikrishnan and I concluded once again that not all artists were "special" but were at the right place at the right time and had been spotted, had established contact and built a rapport with curators at the most opportune moment.  I clicked pictures of the art that resonated with me.

mix media layered 3D narrative
What I liked-:complex narrative

color pencil on paper
What I liked-:delicate rendering of a open ended story

Pen & Ink illustration
What I liked -Hybridity

Yasmin Sinai-cardboard puppet installation
What I liked-puppets, feminist theme of a woman warrior in Iranian history

embroidered illustration
What I liked -traditional Iranian embroidery, saying something subversive

found object-fishing nets with shadows
What I liked-clever use of a readymade object

Samira Abbassy-autobiographical narrative
What I liked-powerful rendering

Abdullah al Saadi-assemblage installation of scarecrows with found objects
What I liked-playfulness

Abraham Crutzvillegas-assemblage with found objects
What I liked-the artist has created a perch for falcons his own way using objects from local souk,playful, instinctive

Reheim Alkadhi-eyelashes of sea labourers and twisted metal sculpture
What I liked-human hair is usually poignant when used in art and this was a social project 

hair of various people

porcelain sculpture of strange menacing creatures and forms
What I liked-beautiful, not so beautiful

abstract ceramic shapes
What I liked-the objects look familiar yet unidentifiable, I was thinking "what are these things?"

light boxes of images of destruction collected from the internet
What I liked-that lightboxes were used and the photos were appropriated

Papercut of currency
What I liked-imaginative use of currency

Mark Dion Cabinet of Marine Debris
What I liked-collection of objects , science meets  art

Rachel Lee Hovnanian Narcissus
What I liked-intricacy, so beautiful rendering and not so beautiful content