Palazzo da Mosto also hosts the exhibition Arabian Transfer by Michele Nastasi, which highlights the transitory condition of six cities of the Arab Peninsula (Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Manama, Riyadh), representing them as landing places for people and cultures. In the past decades these places have appeared as new global epicentres, made possible by the hypermobility of people and images, goods and finances. Largely inhabited (and built) by immigrants from across the world, they exist as a living laboratory in which local identity aspirations are confronted with Western models, and the inhabitants’ cultural cleavages.