Useless Palace

Art Intervention & Group Exhibition

Art Intervention in the Mleiha Desert

Location
Mleiha Desert, Sharjah
Date
December 2022
Useless Palace is a site-specific art intervention followed by a group exhibition that brought ten artists to an abandoned village in the Mleiha Desert, Sharjah. Each artist selected a site within the village and transformed it into a personal workspace. Exploring themes of nomadism, discovery, and connection to the past, the artists assumed the roles of desert wanderers, archaeologists, and modern storytellers. The result was a raw and spontaneous body of work — murals, installations, photographs, and canvases — all created on location. In the absence of a traditional audience, the artists became observers of their own dialogue with the site, echoing one of the key principles of street art: direct engagement with space. Lost in sand and time, the site emerged as a symbolic meeting point between the UAE’s historical memory and the imaginative force of its creative present.
Art Intervention
in the Mleiha Desert
Date: December 2022

Location: Mleiha Desert, Sharjah

Useless Palace is a site-specific art intervention followed by a group exhibition that brought ten artists to an abandoned village in the Mleiha Desert, Sharjah. Each artist selected a site within the village and transformed it into a personal workspace. Exploring themes of nomadism, discovery, and connection to the past, the artists assumed the roles of desert wanderers, archaeologists, and modern storytellers. The result was a raw and spontaneous body of work — murals, installations, photographs, and canvases — all created on location. In the absence of a traditional audience, the artists became observers of their own dialogue with the site, echoing one of the key principles of street art: direct engagement with space. Lost in sand and time, the site emerged as a symbolic meeting point between the UAE’s historical memory and the imaginative force of its creative present.
Useless Palace Art Intervention
December 2022

Useless Palace Art Intervention

December 2022

Date
January 28 – March 30, 2023
Location
Dubai, UAE
The project culminated in a pop-up exhibition in Dubai, which carried the atmosphere of the desert into the city. The self-curated exhibition featured canvases and sculptures created during the intervention, along with found objects and digital works produced with the assistance of AI technologies.

Useless Palace was realized by a team of ten like-minded international urban artists brought together by Inloco Gallery, including 10.203 CREW, Anton Selone, Filippo Minelli, Lokher, and Neda Salmanpour.

Group Exhibition in Dubai

Useless Palace Group Show

January 28 — March 30, 2023

Group Exhibition in Dubai
Date: January 28 – March 30, 2023

Location: Dubai, UAE

The project culminated in a pop-up exhibition in Dubai, which carried the atmosphere of the desert into the city. The self-curated exhibition featured canvases and sculptures created during the intervention, along with found objects and digital works produced with the assistance of AI technologies.

Useless Palace was realized by a team of ten like-minded international urban artists brought together by Inloco Gallery, including 10.203 CREW, Anton Selone, Filippo Minelli, Lokher, and Neda Salmanpour.

Useless Palace Group Show

January 28 — March 30, 2023

Press about project

Press about project