What We Left in the Sandbox: Two Emirati women reimagine childhood through art in Abu Dhabi

“What We Left in the Sandbox: Two Emirati women reimagine childhood through art in Abu Dhabi”

Abu Dhabi: Somewhere in your childhood there is a white plastic chair. It sat on a balcony, in a garden, at the edge of a beach. It was meant for sitting, but you probably never sat on it properly. You stacked it, tipped it over, and turned it into a den, a boat or a throne. If you were unlucky, it snapped under you. Reem Al Mubarak's exhibition 'What We Left in the Sandbox', those chairs come back, cast in aluminum and hung on the wall. Step close and your own face appears in the metal,…