The Tunisian Pavilion summons the act of play as a form of abandonment and release from reality. This is a form of game that stimulates the mind to promote invention.

Pavilion Title: 999

The Tunisian Pavilion summons the act of play as a form of abandonment and release from reality. This is a form of game that stimulates the mind to promote invention. It is a parallel moment in time, a self-expansion in a universe governed by new codes. Tunisia’s 999 creates a play-set and setting for play by means of assembling a 2D oval-shaped element that becomes a three dimensional puzzle. Silence in concentration, white-noise frequencies are marked onto each individual unit, resulting in sound becoming visually and spatially perceivable.

The assembly system allows for the creation of multiple shapes. Governed by freedom, the structure cannot be experienced the same way twice. Everything is a kinetic construction, in both form and substance. It is in constant motion.

Curator: Chacha Atallah

Working internationally as an architect, Chacha has also designed a collection for SLOW, a young furniture and contemporary objects publishing house based in Tunisia. Several of her creations have previously been showcased at Dubai’s Downtown Design.

Designers:

Haythem Zakaria’s plastic creations are infused with Sufi spirituality and are created with unconventional visual techniques, such as glitch, meta-image, cine-process.

Karim Ben Amor is an architect, who is co-founder of ATELIER13 studio, experiments with photography and art installation, and has participated in several international art projects.

A major Dubai Design Week initiative, Abwab is a series of six pavilions built to celebrate and showcase the work of the most exciting designers, studios and curators from six different countries in the MENASA region.

Abwab, which means ‘doors’ in Arabic, acts as a direct portal to the region’s local design talent. A curator from each participating country leads the designers to generate never before-seen design content under one unifying theme, this year being - Games: The Element of Play in Culture.

26 October | 5pm - 9pm
27 - 30 October | 9am - 9pm

Open areas, Dubai Design District (d3)