At World Art Dubai 2025, three students at Zayed University are making waves with an exhibition that seamlessly integrates cultural identity and personal narratives. Dubbed Art Beyond Boundaries, the exhibit explores movement, memory, and light — ubiquitous concepts that appear in mixed-media installations, digital art, and classic Emirati motifs.
The Emirati women behind the project — Salma Al Kaabi, Aisha Al Suwaidi, and Fatima Al Mazrouei — apply their projects to comment on the malleability of identity in a dynamic, fast-moving world. While deeply personal in inspiration, every piece is broad enough to relate to universal questions like heritage, displacement, and emotional transformation and will resonate with an international readership.
One of the best things about the exhibit is the interplay of light and dark, employed symbolically to mean remembrance and the passage of time. Traditional textiles and Arabic calligraphy are also used by the students in combining the old with the new in a dignified conversation between past and future.
Their exhibition is not only an appreciation of woman’s creativity and Emirati culture but also a reflection of Zayed University’s dedication to promoting critical thinking and artistic excellence. World Art Dubai 2025 visitors are encouraged to relate to these universal stories that reach beyond language and geography, being the essence of art without frontiers.
