Passion for women’s art prompted Alejandra Castro Rioseco to embark on patronage
The exhibition opens with the installation ‘Breathe’ featuring porcelain gas masks donned with intricate handmade work consisting of porcelain roses, created before the COVID-19 pandemic, acting on a curious foreboding, by the emerging Spanish artist Noem
Updated 25 March 2021
March 25, 2021 15:12
BEIRUT: The ME hotel in Dubai, designed inside and out by the late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, the woman who rounded out the corners drawn by men, is staging a curated art exhibition entirely dedicated to female artists.
ME Dubai has partnered with MIA Art Collection, and Arab News and its international editions to bring the collective “Sense of Women,” which will take place from March 28 to April 20 and highlight the creative work of the women.
are some of yemen s youngest citizens. i want to caution our viewers that some of this is hard to watch. this is how ahmed helmi spends his days, lying on the concrete floor, trying to swat away the flies with what little energy he has. looking at his tiny body, ravaged by hunger, you would never guess that ahmed is five years old. his brother died of malnutrition two months ago. we re in a war, there s no food, no water, his mother says. only god knows our pain. it s a pain shared by too many here in the same small village. we need abdul, an overwhelmed father of five. he s worried about his son. there s no doctor nearby and no
man. a saudi arabia-led blockade has cut the amount of food and medicine getting into yemen by more than half. what does come through is heavily taxed along the way. rural clinics struggle to meet the scale of the need. 10-month-old ali has gained seven ounces since his last visit, a welcome improvement, but he is still suffering from severe malnutrition. you haven t done anything wrong, the nurse tells his mother, but he s still weak so i really want you to focus on this problem. for ahmed, it may be too late. he s been sick for years now. he only speaks when the pain is too much. he tells me my tummy hurts, my head hurts. he cries. hardship and hunger. this is yemen s story.