SCRAPS by Dariush Zandi and Shaqayeq Arabi, Total Arts Gallery, Dubai (2009)
Marcelo Guimarães Lima SCRAPS is a collaborative installation with found objects, sculptural works and photographs by Dariush Zandi and Shaqayeq Arabi,. The couple has lived and worked in Dubai for many years as artists and also directing Total Arts Gallery. This is the first public show of their artistic collaboration. The project started with a "chance encounter" with the site of a man made disaster: the explosion and fire of an Al Quoz warehouse. Al Quoz is an industrial and commercial area in the city of Dubai, and is also the place where Total Art is located, as well as other contemporary art galleries. The Al Quoz district presents today an interesting amalgam of disparate activities that reflects the rapid pace of development of the city and reflects also the not uncommon process by which the planned development of urban spaces is revised and transformed, beyond original directives and intentions, by the many every...
