Mays Albeik

Nationality:
Palestinian
Home Country:
United Arab Emirates
Lives and Works:
Dubai, UAE


Mays Albeik is an Architect by day and artist by night. Working at the Sharjah art Foundation, her two practices overlap on a daily basis. Born and raised in the United Arab Emirates, Albeik completed a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the American University of Sharjah. In 2014, she was awarded the Architecture Research Consortium Center’s King Student Medal, first runner- up in The Abu Dhabi Book Fair’s short story competition, and a place among the 12 fellows of the Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship. Albeik’s work has been shown in The Sharjah Art Foundation, Hunar Gallery, Sikka art fair, Tashkeel and Warehouse 411. Her stories have been published by The National and The Outpost Magazine, and her architecture work on permanent display at the American University of Sharjah. Her work is on www.maysalbeik.com and on instagram @maysalbeik.

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Selected Artworks

Moments of a home I

Mays Albeik

Moments of a home I

  • 2015
  • Concrete, newspaper, candle wax, dress
  • 2 x 2 x 2 m
  • Listening to a recording of my late grandfather recounting the story of his exile from Palestine, I began this project as a way to try and relate to his experience. I set out to build a shelter using permanent construction materials, and to spend some time occupying the space; I would then take it down, move its components, and aim to rebuild it somewhere else.
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Moments of a home II

Mays Albeik

Moments of a home II

  • 2015
  • Concrete blocks, wheelbarrow, picture frame, candle
  • 2 x 1 m
  • When faced with the challenge of documenting and displaying the project, I decided to create distilled vignettes that show what had become, through the displacement it went through, the essence of the homes I built and rebuilt.
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Deceptive Shelters

Mays Albeik

Deceptive Shelters

  • 2015
  • Plaster, steel wire, twine, burlap, bird spikes
  • 2 x 3 x 6 m
  • Deceptive Shelters was an experiment in creating a space at a human scale that wouldn't feel sheltering, but rather hostile and uninviting.
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Zawyeh (Corner)

Mays Albeik

Zawyeh (Corner)

  • 2015
  • Found objects: concrete blocks, steel pipes
  • 2.4 x 1.0 x 1.2 m
  • In Palestine, the word corner “Zawyeh” is used as a prefix for area names. This sculpture was made during a workshop in Tashkeel with artist Hazem Harb, using materials found in and around a park. While working on this piece, I was considering the minimum requirement of a sheltering space, and how in basic construction methods, turning a corner is one of the most structurally tricky processes. The installation included a sculpture and architectural drawings, encouraging the viewer to interpret the sculpture spatially from different axial points of view.
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Mind the Gap

This March, Tashkeel presents Mind The Gap, an exhibition and programme that is the result of an open call to creatives of all nationalities residing in the United Arab Emirates.

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Rhinoworkshop 400X300

Introduction to Rhinoceros

This workshop will introduce students to the basics of Computer-Aided design, and digital three-dimensional modelling and presentation methods.

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Found-117

Found

The exhibition shows the works created during a three day, practical workshop with Palestinian artist Hazem Harb on site specific found objects and material.

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