Expo 2020 Dubai kicks off Public Art Programme with Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri's 'Chimera'
Dubai: Expo 2020’s Public Art Programme was launched on Sunday with the unveiling of Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri’s ‘Chimera’, an iridescent sculpture resembling an oil drill. “Her bold sculpture with its magnified size and reflective colour makes it seem like a futuristic creature from outer space. Through this sculpture, the artist attempts to merge the pre- and post-oil eras into one body," says Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Public Art Curator for Expo 2020 Dubai. "She creates aesthetic connections between pearls and oil, through their colour, materiality, symbolism, ecology and econo...
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