L’arte contemporanea nel deserto dell’Arabia Saudita
Prima mostra "site-sensitive"organizzata in Arabia Saudita, Desert X AlUla è in corso in un'area di grande interesse naturalistico a circa un'ora di volo dalla città di Gedda. Organizzata da Desert X, in collaborazione con la Royal Commission of AlUla (RCU), curata da Raceme Farsi e Aya Alireza con Neville Wakefield, direttore artistico della kermesse Desert X fondata nel 2015, l'esposizione riunisce le voci di 14 tra artisti e collettivi internazionali. Ciascun partecipante è stato chiamato a misurarsi con la dimensione affascinante, lunare e complessa del deserto. Installate anche a ridosso delle spettacolari formazioni rocciose, tipiche di questa zona dell'Arabia, le installazioni intendono attivare un dialogo interculturale tra gli artisti del Paese ospite e della sua regione di riferimento, coinvolgendo anche autori provenienti dall'Europa e dall'America. La pluralità di forme e materiali, i molteplici orizzonti concettuali e la natura del luogo rendono la mostra un evento di notevole impatto visivo.
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eL Seed, Mirage, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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eL Seed, Mirage, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Lita Albuquerque, NAJMA (She Placed One Thousand Suns On The Transparent Overlays Of Space), installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Lita Albuquerque, NAJMA (She Placed One Thousand Suns On The Transparent Overlays Of Space), installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Manal AlDowayan, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Manal AlDowayan, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Gisela Colon, The Future is Now, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Gisela Colon, The Future is Now, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Gisela Colon, The Future is Now, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, Falling Stones Garden, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist and Lawrie Shabibi, RCU and Desert X
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Nadim Karam, On Parade, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Nadim Karam, On Parade, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Rayyane Tabet, Steel Rings, from the series, The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist and Sfeir- Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg, RCU and Desert X
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Rayyane Tabet, Steel Rings, from the series, The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist and Sfeir- Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg, RCU and Desert X
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Muhannad Shono, The Lost Path, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Nasser AlSalem, Amma Qabel, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Nasser AlSalem, Amma Qabel, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Rashed AlShashai, A Concise Passage, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Superflex, One Two Three Swing! Installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Zahrah AlGhamdi, Glimpses of the Past, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Zahrah AlGhamdi, Glimpses of the Past, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
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Sherin Guirguis, Kholkhal Aliaa, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X
