The pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the 60th International Venice Biennale opens with Abdullah Al Saadi: Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia, curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh.
VENICE: The theme of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is “Laboratory of the Future.” The United Arab Emirates’ response is “Aridly Abundant,” a pavilion filled with a series of separated stone walls made of colored, cut rocks. Curated by Faysal Tabbarah, the pavilion challenges preconceptions around the arid desert land common in the Arabian Peninsula. “Aridly
Aridly Abundant, celebrating the National Pavilion UAE’s fifth participation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, has been inaugurated and will be on view till November 26.