Exhibitionto highlight Omani women’s fashion arts

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth (MoCSY) will launch the creative exhibition 'The Splendour of Oman' on June 8 at the headquarters of the Omani Society, presenting Omani women’s fashion as a visual and cultural expression of national identity.
The exhibition is the outcome of three art workshops organised by the General Directorate of Arts, bringing together visual artists, photographers, digital designers, and students of fine arts and fashion design. The participants produced a curated collection of artworks inspired by traditional Omani attire.
According to officials, the exhibition aims to reinterpret Omani fashion as a renewed visual symbol reflecting the Sultanate of Oman’s cultural, geographical, and human diversity. It combines fine art, photography, digital media and installation art to explore the relationship between heritage and modernity.

The artworks draw inspiration from traditional costumes across Oman’s diverse governorates — mountain, desert, coastal and plains— highlighting their patterns, colours, materials and aesthetic symbols. Organisers said the initiative goes beyond documentation, seeking to transform heritage elements into contemporary artistic experiences that merge image, symbolism, light and form.
Ibrahim bin Saif Bani Araba, Assistant Director General of Arts, said the exhibition represents an artistic initiative that reimagines Omani fashion as a living cultural symbol, using modern visual tools to express identity and continuity between past and present.
Diana bint Abdulmajid al Zadjali, Director of the Visual Arts Department, noted that the project also serves as a platform for cultural communication locally and internationally, while offering young artists an opportunity to engage with heritage through creative reinterpretation and experimentation. — ONA