'Where Sun Meets Shore' celebrates Dubai summer, advocates reflection

It is appropriate that it is in the heart of Dubai, where heritage embraces modernity and ancient sands meet the contemporary waves of the Arabian Sea, that the new group exhibition, Where Sun Meets Shore, is being held.

- Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer

The show (June 19 - mid-July), being hosted at Conrad Dubai, brings together eighteen artists and showcases thirty works of art. Presented by Maria Lari, Founder, Social Arts Gallery in partnership with curator FS Karachiwala, the exhibition invites visitors to experience a journey through land, water, and belonging. The offering is part of the Conrad Art Encounters initiative, a signature global programme that celebrates the intersection of creativity, culture and contemporary luxury. Created to reflect the character of each Conrad property, the initiative allows guests to interact with the artworks that tell stories of heritage, emotion, and place.

The desert and the coastline landscapes that define Dubai become spaces where emotion is transformed into form. The interplay of light and water becomes an artistic language, capturing moments of stillness and movement, vulnerability and strength. The crash and retreat of waves, the blaze of the sun on the sand, the shifting textures shaped by wind and tide captured by the artists, are moments that encourage reflection, reminding us of the beauty that is all around us, if we only care to see it.

"What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

A poor life this if, full of care,