DUBAI: In a warehouse at Alserkal Avenue Dubai’s arts district a group of 11 emerging artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo recently displayed their work in a week-long exhibition titled “Breaking the Mold.” The title was a reference to the attempts of the artists all former students of the Academy of Fine Arts in the DRC’s capital, Kinshasa to escape the
DUBAI: In the 1970s, a bold and adventurous young woman from Yemen named Shadia drove by herself across the Arabian Peninsula from Aden to Kuwait and eventually to the UAE seeking a better life. Today, her granddaughter, the Emirati painter Almaha Jaralla, is telling Shadia’s story through a series of figurative paintings that were on display at the 2022 edition of Abu