Useless Palace exhibition - in pictures
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An abandoned village in Mleiha, Sharjah, became the site of an art project featuring 10 international street artists. All photos: Inloco; Razmig Bedirian / The National -
The 10 artists each picked a location within the village, giving it a whimsical new coat of paint before producing a series of works for an exhibition on site, titled Useless Palace -
The Birch House by Turben -
The Birch Sisters by Turben, in the window of the artist's Birch House -
Artist Xeato painted a portrait of a cheetah for the project and created a series of objects based on the myth of Atlantis -
Ivan Ilinskii created futuristic mirror cubes for the project -
Abderrahmene Salah, known as Lokher, decorated the bottom of a pool discovered in the village with a 3D mural of his favourite childhood breakfast -
Lokher's work often reflects on themes of nostalgia and home -
Filippo Minelli placed objects depicting window areas and doorways with mashrabiya elements in the desert -
Maxim Ima's Everyone had the clocks, but no one had the time -
Turben's Birch House in the metaverse version of the Useless Palace exhibition. Works are presented in a gallery space and as they were originally, on site -
The Useless Palace exhibition in its metaverse gallery space -
The metaverse gallery is almost identical to the Inloco Gallery in Dubai -
You'll be prompted to make an avatar when logging into the Useless Palace metaverse exhibition -
Abderrahmene Salah's pool in the on site display in the metaverse -
Turben's on site metaverse Birch House is a facsimile of the original -
The metaverse Useless Palace exhibition culminates with a documentary by Anton Selone in the virtual theatre space
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