Abu Dhabi Art 2024: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Tammam Azzam lives and works in Berlin. After studying art in Damascus, he relocated to Dubai due to the Syrian Civil War and began working with digital photomontages. In 2016, he was an Artist in Residence at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, where he expanded his practice to include painting and paper collages. His fragmented works explore the remnants of destruction and the possibilities of renewal. They pose questions about the conditio humana—the human condition shaped by destruction and suffering, yet also by hope and creativity. This duality is central to his art, which creates something new out of fragments.

Stéphane Couturier has been exploring the transformation of spaces and architecture since the 1990s. Inspired by his in-depth engagement with architect Le Corbusier's urban planning in Chandigarh, India, his tapestries draw on Le Corbusier's concept of murales nomades, or "nomadic murals." The idea of double exposure—layering two photographs on top of each other—also shapes the motifs of his tapestries. His works are featured in over 50 international collections, including the Centre Pompidou, and he has been honored with awards such as the Prix Niépce (2003).