Lamya gargash biography of barack

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Concerned with the relics of an ever self-renewing architecture, Gargash documents the forgotten spaces in public and private realms in Emirati society. Throughout her career, she has won a number of awards for her work in film and photography.

At the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), her series Familial, which documents budget hotels in the U.A.E., was featured in the U.A.E.'s first Venice Biennale exhibition, It's Not You, It's Me. In 2004 she received first prize in the Emirates Film Competition, as well as a Special Recognition award in Dubai Media City's Ibda¹a Media Students Awards for her movie Wet Tiles.

Her first artist book, Presence (Dubai: The Third Line, 2006), is a photographic series documenting recently vacated houses and structures in the U.A.E. that have been abandoned or left for demolition. She has since then documented various interiors & spaces ranging from social & cultural clubs to budget hotels & f