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Meet Emirati artist behind ‘Love’ sculpture in Dubai
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2/13/2025
Millions of people passing Dubai International Airport will notice a striking red sculpture in Arabic calligraphy titled ‘Love’.
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Art has a beginning in my life when I was young.
00:04
I worked hard and studied on this subject,
00:08
and praise be to God,
00:10
my goal is to bring the art of the UAE to the world.
00:17
Art is a cumulative thing for the artist,
00:23
from his identity, from his values,
00:25
from the events that happened to him,
00:28
people notice that it is a new thing,
00:33
but I was following it since the beginning of e-commerce,
00:38
and I studied it since 2018.
00:43
I used to be interested in different artistic works,
00:47
but after NFTs and e-commerce appeared,
00:52
I started to be interested in them.
00:54
I have been interested in the production of NFTs for a long time,
01:01
and my work is almost ready, but I didn't want to publish it.
01:05
One day I was on a shooting trip in the desert,
01:10
and I was surprised by two trees,
01:14
which turned out to be empty,
01:18
and in the end they became a cluster.
01:22
This means that love is everywhere,
01:25
it is not natural, praise be to God,
01:29
it is based on love, and it continues with love.
01:32
Then I was inspired by this picture,
01:36
the work of love that was taken from Dubai International Airport,
01:41
in the building number 1,
01:43
and the work is a message of love to the world.
01:46
We welcome them and say goodbye to them with love and peace.
01:51
The UAE has always been a pioneer in various fields,
01:57
and we have reached a stage where we have one of the most important museums in the world,
02:02
the Louvre Museum,
02:04
and we are currently working on it,
02:06
and in Dubai we have the Museum of the Future,
02:08
and we have different museums,
02:10
such as the Museum of Art in Sharjah.
02:12
This is something that the UAE artists benefit from,
02:17
especially when you come here and meet different artists,
02:23
even in your country,
02:25
and you see the work in reality,
02:27
I think we travel to work,
02:30
we travel to art and museums abroad,
02:32
but when you see the work in reality,
02:34
it is different from what you see on TV or the internet,
02:38
this is something that encourages the artist,
02:41
develops the artist's idea,
02:43
the cultural movement supports it,
02:45
and encourages the artists,
02:47
and the country, thank God,
02:49
has a big role in this field.
02:53
This work is called Antibiotic,
02:57
and it has a philosophical and symbolic work,
03:00
it is not based on medicine,
03:05
or based on the parameters of petrol,
03:08
and the philosophy is from different aspects,
03:13
the pharmaceutical companies,
03:15
and their trade in medicine,
03:17
how they treat it as metal,
03:19
in addition to other aspects of work,
03:23
even if we talk about the countries
03:26
that used to look at us as countries of petrol,
03:29
but during the crises,
03:31
these countries have changed,
03:33
including the UAE,
03:35
which used to look at us as oil,
03:38
but during the corona crisis,
03:40
they used their resources,
03:42
and subsidized their resources,
03:44
to serve the country, the citizens,
03:46
and the residents,
03:48
and sent them to many countries,
03:50
and countries that have a place for them,
03:52
from the equipment to the medicine,
03:55
and during the crisis,
03:57
this is what made the metals,
03:59
and the good qualities,
04:01
visible to the people.
04:03
I insisted there in Muranof,
04:06
and studied the glass,
04:08
and its capabilities,
04:10
and there was a debate between us,
04:12
they said it was difficult,
04:14
and the calligraphy,
04:16
the Arabic calligraphy,
04:18
would be difficult to do,
04:20
on the glass,
04:22
but in the end,
04:24
I got to work,
04:26
and thank God,
04:28
it took a while,
04:30
I produced different works,
04:32
the work of the subsidization,
04:34
the work,
04:36
and I want to document,
04:38
a phase,
04:40
from the journey of forgiveness,
04:42
to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan,
04:44
who,
04:46
in a certain phase,
04:50
had a big challenge,
04:52
to plant the desert,
04:54
but his insistence,
04:56
and his faith,
04:58
that he could do it,
05:00
spread,
05:02
the subsidization,
05:04
spread in the country,
05:06
this phase,
05:08
and the role it played,
05:10
from converting the desert to heaven,
05:12
and thank God,
05:14
people saw it,
05:16
Arabs and foreigners,
05:18
I wanted to document this phase,
05:20
the subsidization that was before,
05:22
to plant the desert,
05:24
now, it was produced,
05:26
in a cinematic way,
05:28
to plant the journey of Sheikh Zayed,
05:30
to plant the desert.
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