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The United Arab Emirates is to be the first Gulf state to have a national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009. “The theme, ‘Making Worlds’, speaks of the potential of art to bring new realities into being,” stated Paolo Baratta, president of the Venice Biennale. “It is all the more appropriate, therefore, that the Biennale will include the pavilion of the UAE, a nation that is fast becoming one of the significant new realities in the world of art.”