While you might be familiar with 3D-printing being used to render smaller-sized models or prototypes, did you realise the technology can also be used to print far larger objects? In Belgium, Europe’s largest ever 3D-printed home, a two story structure with two living rooms, a kitchen, bathroom, and foyer, has recently been completed by the Belgian sustainable construction company Kamp C, hugely advancing the science of 3D-printed housing. After this project, the partners hope to raise interest in the building industry about the use of 3D concrete printing as a building technique.
At Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, Indian contemporary artist Manish Nai invites viewers to reconsider the materials that surround them. In In Search of Material within Material, a solo exhibition bringing together works created between 2021 and 2026, discarded objects, industrial surfaces and familiar everyday materials become the starting point for an exploration of form, memory and transformation.
There are artists who paint what they see, and others who paint what they remember, what they have lost, or what words cannot express. Etel Adnan did all three.
Some artists paint what they see. Others paint what they carry within them. For Paul Guiragossian, art became a language for the human experience — a way to express belonging, separation, resilience and the quiet strength of togetherness.