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Schedule a private viewing:
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Useless Palace Art Intervention in the Mleiha Desert
Сomposition of artists
Location
Mleiha desert in Sharjah, UAE
Mleiha desert in Sharjah, UAE
Useless Palace is a site-specific intervention that brought ten artists to an abandoned village in the Mleiha desert, Sharjah. What once might have been a place of life is now filled with discarded objects — a palace of ruins — which the artists temporarily reclaimed as studios and stages for creation.
Each artist chose a specific site within the village and turned it into a personal workspace. The result was a raw and spontaneous body of work — murals, installations, photographs, and canvases — created entirely 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.
Useless Palace repositions the abandoned as essential — turning a forgotten corner of the desert into a canvas for contemporary reflection. The project culminated in a pop-up exhibition in Dubai, carrying the atmosphere of the desert into the city. Lost in sand and time, the site became a symbolic meeting point between the UAE’s historical memory and the imaginative force of its creative present.
The participating artists are: 10.203 CREW / Filippo Minelli / Lokher / Neda Salmanpour.
Each artist chose a specific site within the village and turned it into a personal workspace. The result was a raw and spontaneous body of work — murals, installations, photographs, and canvases — created entirely 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.
Useless Palace repositions the abandoned as essential — turning a forgotten corner of the desert into a canvas for contemporary reflection. The project culminated in a pop-up exhibition in Dubai, carrying the atmosphere of the desert into the city. Lost in sand and time, the site became a symbolic meeting point between the UAE’s historical memory and the imaginative force of its creative present.
The participating artists are: 10.203 CREW / Filippo Minelli / Lokher / Neda Salmanpour.
Date
December, 2022
December, 2022
Useless Palace
Art Intervention in the Mleiha Desert
Art Intervention in the Mleiha Desert
Date: December, 2022
Location: Mleiha desert in Sharjah, UAE
Useless Palace is a site-specific intervention that brought ten artists to an abandoned village in the Mleiha desert, Sharjah. What once might have been a place of life is now filled with discarded objects — a palace of ruins — which the artists temporarily reclaimed as studios and stages for creation.
Each artist chose a specific site within the village and turned it into a personal workspace. The result was a raw and spontaneous body of work — murals, installations, photographs, and canvases — created entirely 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.
Useless Palace repositions the abandoned as essential — turning a forgotten corner of the desert into a canvas for contemporary reflection. The project culminated in a pop-up exhibition in Dubai, carrying the atmosphere of the desert into the city. Lost in sand and time, the site became a symbolic meeting point between the UAE’s historical memory and the imaginative force of its creative present.
The participating artists are: 10.203 CREW / Filippo Minelli / Lokher / Neda Salmanpour.
Location: Mleiha desert in Sharjah, UAE
Useless Palace is a site-specific intervention that brought ten artists to an abandoned village in the Mleiha desert, Sharjah. What once might have been a place of life is now filled with discarded objects — a palace of ruins — which the artists temporarily reclaimed as studios and stages for creation.
Each artist chose a specific site within the village and turned it into a personal workspace. The result was a raw and spontaneous body of work — murals, installations, photographs, and canvases — created entirely 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.
Useless Palace repositions the abandoned as essential — turning a forgotten corner of the desert into a canvas for contemporary reflection. The project culminated in a pop-up exhibition in Dubai, carrying the atmosphere of the desert into the city. Lost in sand and time, the site became a symbolic meeting point between the UAE’s historical memory and the imaginative force of its creative present.
The participating artists are: 10.203 CREW / Filippo Minelli / Lokher / Neda Salmanpour.
