421 Arts Campus

This guide to 421 Arts Campus in Abu Dhabi follows a mentorship the converted-warehouse arts hub ran with photographers racing to document Mina Zayed, the working port around it, before redevelopment could change it for good. You'll hear about Lara Rudar's Dhow Graveyard, a virtual-reality piece built from photographs of rotting wooden dhows on the mudflats, and about other participants who gathered market vendors' tools and portraits or mined their own childhood memories of shopping there. It also covers how these two ordinary port warehouses themselves were converted into galleries, studios and a public plaza back in 2015.