MNWR Forum Biennale Diriyah
Disciplines
Private Collections
Within the framework of the MNWR Forum, the work takes on an additional resonance. The forum’s emphasis on dialogue and exchange echoes the artist’s own concerns — the way meaning travels across languages, the way images carry memory, the way a single motif can hold a multiplicity of stories. Here, the lily, the stitched line, and the dissolved letter become vessels for something larger than themselves.
Set within the historic Jax District, the showing brings together threads of language, nature, and abstraction in a context that itself sits at the intersection of heritage and contemporaneity.
Presented at the MNWR Forum during the Diriyah Biennale in collaboration with Hafez Gallery, this body of work marks a significant moment of dialogue between the artist’s practice and the cultural landscape of Saudi Arabia.
The works on view trace a quiet thread between the Arabian desert and the Mediterranean — two landscapes that have long shaped the artist’s visual language. Botanical forms emerge across linen and canvas, threaded with fragments of Tifinagh and Arabic script. What appears at first as ornament reveals itself, on closer reading, as a study in patience: each mark layered, each gesture earned.
Within the framework of the MNWR Forum, the work takes on an additional resonance. The forum’s emphasis on dialogue and exchange echoes the artist’s own concerns — the way meaning travels across languages, the way images carry memory, the way a single motif can hold a multiplicity of stories. Here, the lily, the stitched line, and the dissolved letter become vessels for something larger than themselves.
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