Dubai artist Jumairy invites viewers into an otherworldly space of reflection and memory. Echo is an interactive light installation inspired by Jungian psychology and myth — a shimmering pool where visitors confront their own shadow selves. Emerging from water, sound, and light, the work transforms darkness into presence, emotion into resonance, and self into echo.

Architects Takuma YOKOMAE and Dr. Ghali BOUAYAD’s pavilion turns sunlight and wind into movement. Inspired by Japanese weaving and desert breezes, its delicate stainless-steel mesh and columns create ever-changing patterns of shade. A poetic dialogue between nature and design, choreography of a cloud transforms architecture into a living dance of light.

Tokyo-based artist and poet Rintaro Fuse imagines a sundial for a world where the sun has vanished. Crafted from polished stainless steel and aligned with three North Stars — Thuban, Polaris, Vega — the monumental sculpture reflects on time, mortality, and cosmic continuity. Installed beneath the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s celestial dome, it casts eternal shadows even in perpetual night.

Through her luminous lapis-in-lapis stone inlay technique, Lahore-based artist Hamra Abbas celebrates the universal poetry of trees. Her marble and lapis sculptures translate olive, pomegranate, and cherry branches into dreamlike silhouettes, merging realism and abstraction. Tree Studies bridges Pakistan and the UAE, inviting reflection on our shared ecological roots and the timeless symbolism of nature.

Architect and artist Ahmed Al-Aqra transforms fleeting urban shadows into sculptural memory. His installation of translucent acrylic cubes preserves moments of light captured in Sharjah and Dubai — the quiet interplay of sun, surface, and movement. Echoing the mashrabiya, the work blurs illumination and intimacy, inviting viewers to experience light not as brightness, but as a fleeting encounter between body, city, and time.

In skadw-, audiovisual artist Ryoichi Kurokawa sculpts light and fog into a meditative symphony of shadow. Using synchronised beams and ambient sound, the Berlin-based composer transforms emptiness into spatial rhythm, revealing the Japanese aesthetic of Ma — beauty found in silence and absence. The result is an ephemeral architecture woven from air, sound, and shifting light.