{"id":108818,"date":"2022-05-19T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/?p=108818"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:51:29","slug":"alowais-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/alowais-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirati artist Camelia Mohebi pays homage to Sheikh Khalifa with digital art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dubai multi-disciplinary artist Camelia Mohebi has paid tribute to\u00a0Sheikh Khalifa<\/a>\u00a0with an experimental piece that echoes her ongoing body of work based around frequencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Emirati artist says she began work on the piece a day after Sheikh Khalifa’s death on Friday, and shared it on her Instagram page.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I wanted to pay homage to our dear President,” she tells\u00a0The National<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohebi, whose first solo exhibition in Dubai, Signals, was hosted by Sotheby’s this week, said the artwork took her about six hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I started with a charcoal sketch, which I then scanned and put through various softwares, adding different layers,” she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Emirati artist Camelia Mohebi held her first solo exhibition, Signals, in Dubai this week. Photo: Camelia Mohebi<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The patchwork of lines “is almost as if he’s an energy field,” she explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s to illustrate that his soul is moulded into our minds and hearts and imprinted on the collective memory of the country. The black-and-white blocks on the border signify the building blocks of the country he helped build and its history.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohebi also shared another artwork of\u00a0Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed<\/a>, who was elected President of the UAE<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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