Diriyah Biennale
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Lana Khayat’s participation in the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale with Hafez Gallery marked a pivotal moment in her practice. Set within one of the region’s most vital contemporary art platforms, this exhibition offered space for her work to resonate in dialogue with cultural memory, material heritage, and the emotional landscape of place. The works presented reflected years of exploration — of nature, silence, and the quiet force of stitching as a form of resistance and remembrance.
At the Diriyah Biennale, Khayat’s work stood as a meditation on slowness and the unseen. Using silk thread, oil on linen, and layered abstraction, her pieces invited the viewer to witness a language built through repetition and restraint. Rooted in nature, yet never illustrative, these compositions revealed the anatomy of feeling — the rhythm of petals, the structure of breath, and the memory held in material.
The inclusion of her work in this Biennale was significant not only in scale, but in context. It placed her practice within a larger regional and historical narrative, where ancient symbols, oral traditions, and unspoken gestures find space in contemporary expression. Through her collaboration with Hafez Gallery, Khayat’s work entered a conversation that honored both the past and the possible, reflecting the shifting role of women, memory, and landscape in Arab visual culture. In this setting, her stitched canvases did not seek attention.
They held it. They carried quiet power — echoing the themes of endurance, care, and transformation. This exhibition became a moment of arrival, not as conclusion, but as continuation. A pause within a larger unfolding. A thread carried forward.
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