Expo 2020 Dubai: Art installation by visitors as young as 3 now on display at mall

Expo 2020 Dubai: Art installation by visitors as young as 3 now on display at mall

The artwork will be on display for 30 days and is currently up for sale

Sleeping Muse. Photo: Supplied

Published: Thu 16 Jun 2022, 2:26 PM

An astounding collaborative art project weighing 300 kilograms, worked on by 7,500 people, the youngest of whom was just 3, is now being exhibited at the One Wall Gallery in Index Mall, Dubai.

The unique artwork, completed at Expo 2020, is inspired by and named after Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Sleeping Muse. Visitors from 119 nationalities completed the project in 25 days at the Romanian pavilion.

Conceived and executed by designer Florin Cobuz, the artwork had some high-profile collaborators including Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan; Minister of State for Foreign Trade Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi and UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and managing director of Expo 2020 Dubai Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy.

"I was invited by the Romanian pavilion to conduct an exhibition," said Florin Cobuz, co-founder of the design space Nod Makerspace. "I didn't want to just put up another exhibition. I wanted to create something with the people. To be honest, after the first week, we were exhausted because of the sheer amount of people and