Piaget celebrated its legacy by participating in Art Dubai 2025 as the exclusive Watch and Jewellery partner. The exhibition, running from April 18th to 20th, will showcase Piaget’s exceptional creations and exclusive collaborations, blending art, jewellery, and horology. Featuring elegant displays and five distinct universes—Play of Shapes, House of Gold, Vibrant Colours, Ultra-Thin Mastery, and the Piaget Society—the booth offers an immersive experience into Piaget’s world. With a rich history dating back to 1874, Piaget continues to merge technical precision with luxurious creativity, setting new standards in the watch and fine jewellery sectors.

Founded in 2007, Art Dubai is the most significant global art gathering in the Middle East. At this year’s event Piaget unveiled a series of trapeze watches deeply rooted in the Maison’s historic codes. Its name? Sixtie. Its allure? Daring and avant-garde, to echo the flamboyance that marked the late 1960s, when Piaget redefined the contours of precious pieces and women’s watches. Almost 60 years later, Piaget is celebrating the exacting creativity of its heritage, paying homage to this golden age. Emerging from the Maison’s Ateliers de l’Extraordinaire, this creativity brings together every facet of the Maison’s expertise while drawing on a wealth of imagination.

This year Piaget collaborated with Emirati designer Shamsa Alabbar to reinterpret her iconic Token design, blending the Maison’s craftsmanship with Shamsa’s contemporary take on Arabic typography. A powerful emblem of heritage, the Token symbolizes power, unity, and balance—deeply rooted values in Arab culture.

Closer to home, in a special highlight of this year at Art Dubai, Piaget collaborated with Kuwaiti artist Alymamah Rashed to create a bespoke art piece that reimagines the Maison’s Play of Shapes through her surrealist lens. Known for her dreamlike compositions and fluid forms, Rashed translates Piaget’s bold creativity into a poetic dialogue between art, time, and craftsmanship.

Titled “Your Love Moves Around My Trapeze Sun (Will You Hold Our Glistening Light?)”, the piece draws inspiration from the trapeze-shaped dial in Piaget’s new Sixtie Jewellery Watch Collection, transforming it into a radiant golden sun—a symbol of rhythm, movement, and the fluidity of life.

Rashed’s use of rich pigments, gold leaf, and mica brings Piaget’s universe to life, infusing her figures with movement, energy, and abundant flow. To honour the earthly bodies, she embellishes them with glistening painterly gestures, mirroring the brilliance of Piaget’s diamonds, jewels, and exceptional craftsmanship.

This painting serves as an ode to Piaget’s iconic shapes, graceful movement, bold creativity, and timeless savoir-faire, capturing the whirling spirit that dances through the vibrancy of its presence in this life and beyond. 

For Alyamamah Rashed, art has always been more than a passion—it is a way of existing in the world. Raised in a creative household where afternoons were spent drawing with her father or painting with her mother, she found her calling early. At 17, she moved from Kuwait to New York, chasing her dreams with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and later an MFA from Parsons School of Design. Her journey, shaped by vibrant cityscapes and the quiet pulse of memory, now continues in Kuwait, where she nurtures her evolving practice under the representation of Tabari Art Space and Hunna Art.

Central to her work is a rich exploration of identity, nature, and culture, themes that ebb and flow like tides throughout her paintings. “Identity for me is fluid,” she explains. “It’s shaped by memory, place, and how objects transform through symbols and figuration.” Growing up between Kuwait and New York lent her a unique, layered perspective—one that marries the personal with the collective. In her paintings, nature often serves as a sacred setting, a mirror to emotional landscapes, while cultural motifs are woven subtly into gestures, rhythms, and materials.

This intrinsic sense of duality made her the perfect collaborator for Piaget’s Play on Shape exhibition at Art Dubai. The luxury maison, celebrated for its craftsmanship and energy drawn from the free-spirited 1960s and 70s, found a natural conversation partner in Rashed’s ever-evolving, fluid world. “Piaget’s trapeze motif immediately spoke to me,” she says. “I saw it as a sun that ripples, a giver of life. From that, I imagined blue figures—born from a singular blue atom—caressing and rotating eternally around the sun.”

Her commissioned piece, Your Love Moves Around My Trapeze Sun (Will You Hold Our Glistening Light?), is a visual dance between heritage and spirit, blending Piaget’s iconic shapes with Rashed’s signature figures. Through careful layering of raw pigments, gold leaf, and pointillism techniques, she infused the painting with symbolic energy. “Each dot represents the atom of the spirit,” Rashed shares. “It bursts into existence, wrapping itself around the trapeze sun in a dance of life and renewal.”

For Rashed, the collaboration with Piaget felt like a natural extension of her own artistic language. “Piaget’s history carries a sense of movement, form, and eternal expansion,” she says. “Those themes are already alive in my work. Collaborating with them felt effortless, like two spirits meeting and merging.” Instead of altering her practice, the partnership amplified her storytelling, allowing her to dress her fluid, fluctuating figures in the maison’s multidimensional heritage.

Exhibiting the work at Art Dubai is particularly meaningful for Rashed. “Art Dubai offers a platform where Arab artists can share their stories not just internationally, but within the region itself,” she reflects. She hopes that visitors will not just view her work, but step into it—through the dotted blue atoms, the rippling sun, the ever-watching eyes—and find their own spirit reflected back at them. “Art is a mirror,” she says. “It gifts the viewer the freedom to experience their own awakening.”

For Alyamamah Rashed, this collaboration with Piaget marks not just a milestone in her career, but a powerful affirmation of her artistic vision—one that celebrates identity, spirit, and the eternal dance between light, form, and memory.

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