Meet Emirati artist behind ‘Love’ sculpture in Dubai

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00:00Art has a beginning in my life when I was young.

00:04I worked hard and studied on this subject,

00:08and praise be to God,

00:10my goal is to bring the art of the UAE to the world.

00:17Art is a cumulative thing for the artist,

00:23from his identity, from his values,

00:25from the events that happened to him,

00:28people notice that it is a new thing,

00:33but I was following it since the beginning of e-commerce,

00:38and I studied it since 2018.

00:43I used to be interested in different artistic works,

00:47but after NFTs and e-commerce appeared,

00:52I started to be interested in them.

00:54I have been interested in the production of NFTs for a long time,

01:01and my work is almost ready, but I didn't want to publish it.

01:05One day I was on a shooting trip in the desert,

01:10and I was surprised by two trees,

01:14which turned out to be empty,

01:18and in the end they became a cluster.

01:22This means that love is everywhere,

01:25it is not natural, praise be to God,

01:29it is based on love, and it continues with love.

01:32Then I was inspired by this picture,

01:36the work of love that was taken from Dubai International Airport,

01:41in the building number 1,

01:43and the work is a message of love to the world.

01:46We welcome them and say goodbye to them with love and peace.

01:51The UAE has always been a pioneer in various fields,

01:57and we have reached a stage where we have one of the most important museums in the world,

02:02the Louvre Museum,

02:04and we are currently working on it,

02:06and in Dubai we have the Museum of the Future,

02:08and we have different museums,

02:10such as the Museum of Art in Sharjah.

02:12This is something that the UAE artists benefit from,

02:17especially when you come here and meet different artists,

02:23even in your country,

02:25and you see the work in reality,

02:27I think we travel to work,

02:30we travel to art and museums abroad,

02:32but when you see the work in reality,

02:34it is different from what you see on TV or the internet,

02:38this is something that encourages the artist,

02:41develops the artist's idea,

02:43the cultural movement supports it,

02:45and encourages the artists,

02:47and the country, thank God,

02:49has a big role in this field.

02:53This work is called Antibiotic,

02:57and it has a philosophical and symbolic work,

03:00it is not based on medicine,

03:05or based on the parameters of petrol,

03:08and the philosophy is from different aspects,

03:13the pharmaceutical companies,

03:15and their trade in medicine,

03:17how they treat it as metal,

03:19in addition to other aspects of work,

03:23even if we talk about the countries

03:26that used to look at us as countries of petrol,

03:29but during the crises,

03:31these countries have changed,

03:33including the UAE,

03:35which used to look at us as oil,

03:38but during the corona crisis,

03:40they used their resources,

03:42and subsidized their resources,

03:44to serve the country, the citizens,

03:46and the residents,

03:48and sent them to many countries,

03:50and countries that have a place for them,

03:52from the equipment to the medicine,

03:55and during the crisis,

03:57this is what made the metals,

03:59and the good qualities,

04:01visible to the people.

04:03I insisted there in Muranof,

04:06and studied the glass,

04:08and its capabilities,

04:10and there was a debate between us,

04:12they said it was difficult,

04:14and the calligraphy,

04:16the Arabic calligraphy,

04:18would be difficult to do,

04:20on the glass,

04:22but in the end,

04:24I got to work,

04:26and thank God,

04:28it took a while,

04:30I produced different works,

04:32the work of the subsidization,

04:34the work,

04:36and I want to document,

04:38a phase,

04:40from the journey of forgiveness,

04:42to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan,

04:44who,

04:46in a certain phase,

04:50had a big challenge,

04:52to plant the desert,

04:54but his insistence,

04:56and his faith,

04:58that he could do it,

05:00spread,

05:02the subsidization,

05:04spread in the country,

05:06this phase,

05:08and the role it played,

05:10from converting the desert to heaven,

05:12and thank God,

05:14people saw it,

05:16Arabs and foreigners,

05:18I wanted to document this phase,

05:20the subsidization that was before,

05:22to plant the desert,

05:24now, it was produced,

05:26in a cinematic way,

05:28to plant the journey of Sheikh Zayed,

05:30to plant the desert.

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