Eighteen artists from the arab world and its diasporas show us their vision of the future – utopia or dystopia – in the new exhibition ARABOFUTURS – Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires super close to our hotels at the Arab World Institute.

Get ready to voyage through time and space with this new exhibition at the Arab World Institute.

Designed to mimic a space rocket, the path through the exhibition progressively takes visitors further and further away from our world to future worlds that are increasingly more unreal and alternative, with works in various media: photos, paintings, installations, sculptures, videos…

The eighteen artists explore what could lie in wait for us during the decades to come. Perhpas aliens will finally visit us? Or we’ll go to meet them? What will Earth look like in the future? Will technology save us, or destroy us?

Related to the exhibition, you might be interested in:

— shows, performances, round tables, literary meet-ups and film showings based on the themse explored in the exhibition,

— a special evening on 24th May: Deira expérience by artist Saint Levant, described as “a culinary experience shared between musicians, friends and guests”,

— the Arab World Institute Design Prize in September, the theme of which this year is ARABOFUTURES…

— a symposium on the 5th/6th September about artificial intelligence in the Arab world’s creative industries,

— guided visits at the weekend…

A catalogue of the exhibition in French (144 pages, 74 colour illustrations, 26€) will be published on 17th May. You can order it online here.

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The exhibition ARABOFUTURES – Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires is at the Arab World Institute (here) until 12th January 2025

Open every day except Mondays from 10am-6pm (7pm weekends and public holidays). Late night opening the first Wednesday of each month until 9.30pm

Admission: 10€ / 8€

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