Richard Mille and Louvre Abu Dhabi are delighted to present Nabla Yahya, the third winner of the Richard Mille Art Prize – whose work was celebrated under the Louvre Abu Dhabi dome in a ceremony on January 24th.
Nabla Yahya (b. 1993, Abu Dhabi) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work Soft Bank, was one of eight pieces shortlisted for the Art Here 2023 exhibition, which opened to public in November 2023.
Soft Bank (2023), Nabla’s winning installation, offered an amalgamation of her extensive research into the obscure and neglected history pertaining to the initial construction of the Suez Canal. Using a three-dimensional cartographic representation of the 164km Suez Canal, her figurative approach to this year’s Art Here theme, ‘Transparencies’, challenged observers to contemplate the role of cultural hegemony at the cost of what is todays Suez Canal.
Soft Bank expands on the disregarded details that were made inconsequential, thus conceptualizing her interpretation of ‘Transparencies’.
The Richard Mille Art Prize and Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here serve as a platform to showcase contemporary artists from the region working with a diversity of mediums. Each year, the exhibition sees several artists selected through an open call for proposals, each presenting an artwork that responds to a unique thematic.
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