A new art exhibition in collaboration with DIFC, and the Emirates Literature Foundation. The Exhibition is open to the public from May 14th to June 14th at DIFC WEST GATE.
MIA ART COLLECTION, in collaboration with Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and the THE EMIRATES LITERATURE FOUNDATION, brings “LA BELLEZA – اﻟﺟﻣﺎل : Poetry & Art”, an innovative and exceptional exhibition curated by a team of international curators directed by Alejandra Castro Rioseco with special co-curator Namal Siddiqui, in DIFC’s iconic The Gate building, delivering a month full of poetry and international art.
This is the second exhibition this year by MIA ART Collection in collaboration with the DIFC, Dubai’s most sought-after business and lifestyle destination and is a first active collaboration with The Emirates Literature Foundation, home of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, a not for profit non-governmental organization that supports and nurtures a love of literature in the UAE and across the region through a program of varied cultural initiatives with a focus on introducing and cultivating a spirit of reading while acting as a catalyst for writing and cultural exchange.
The exhibition is inspired by the vital need to connect with the sensitivity and beauty of the simple, from the minimum to what sublimely passes before our eyes in everyday life, daily examples of everyday acts that when transformed into poetry turn into something beautiful. The exhibition includes 19 artists and poets, and a curatorial line based on literature as a cornerstone of the beauty of culture. Once again the exhibition combines new art works with works from the MIA Art Collection, the DIFC collection and new pieces by poets and artists, to create an aesthetically beautiful and deeply sensitive exhibition.
MIA Art Collection’s view on art and culture undoubtedly includes the direct line between art and poetry. Historically, art and poetry have been related and have been fundamental to the training of artists in the world, especially in this region. Poetry and the role it played in trying to sensibilize the world of its banalities will take on value in this exhibition, that seeks to integrate poetry and art and unify them through this wonderful journey that contemplates historical and outstanding poets from the world of art, giving special emphasis to women poets and their role in the society of poets of the Arab world, one of the cradles of poetry and prose.
The world of art teaches us that the vast majority of the art pieces that we see in museums are pieces by male artists while the woman’s gaze therein is almost non-existent. Once again, driven by its mission to promote visibility of women artists in the world, MIA ART Collection choses to highlight the delicate space within the galaxies of arts taken by literature and poetry, and in doing so allows us to reflect on our current reality of women artists and their visibility.