TALES OF RIYADH
2024
Format: 75 x 110 cm
Diptichs: 100 x 150 cm + 100 x 66 cm
Imagined for the exhibition Woven Portraits, Dreamscapes of a City in collaboration with artist Daniah Al Saleh and based on interviews with 37 Saudi women of different ages and backgrounds, the series Tales of Riyadh invites us on a sensory journey through the city, through the personal perspectives of these women.
Urban scenes, busy streets, congested highways, imposing buildings, bustling venues, community and family gatherings and natural landscapes blend to create a subjective portrait of Riyadh. The interplay between day and night, trees and buildings, wind and light provide additional levels of perception, which a dreamlike soundtrack enhances.
Viewers are invited to navigate through large-scale video projections, discovering reminiscences of their own visions.
Photographic compositions are assembled in diptychs with overlapping images whose elements are intricately woven, combining reality and fiction.
They introduce us to the protagonists. The women's silhouettes blend intimately into the urban landscape, of which they are an integral part.
We see Riyadh through their eyes, and the city's features become subjective tableaux.
Titles are inspired by the interviews.
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What if the City was a big yard full of palmtrees ?
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Written sunshades
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It all becomes approachable
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It just allows you to be there
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The wind tells me to be here
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Hard on the outside, soft on the inside
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She belongs to the Night
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Gatherings I & II
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Changing Moods
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Welcoming in her paths
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Anchorage
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Nature City I & II
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The city meets the desert
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I draw my strength
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Flying Life
Diptichs: 100 x 150 cm + 100 x 66 cm
Imagined for the exhibition Woven Portraits, Dreamscapes of a City in collaboration with artist Daniah Al Saleh and based on interviews with 37 Saudi women of different ages and backgrounds, the series Tales of Riyadh invites us on a sensory journey through the city, through the personal perspectives of these women.
Urban scenes, busy streets, congested highways, imposing buildings, bustling venues, community and family gatherings and natural landscapes blend to create a subjective portrait of Riyadh. The interplay between day and night, trees and buildings, wind and light provide additional levels of perception, which a dreamlike soundtrack enhances.
Viewers are invited to navigate through large-scale video projections, discovering reminiscences of their own visions.
Photographic compositions are assembled in diptychs with overlapping images whose elements are intricately woven, combining reality and fiction.
They introduce us to the protagonists. The women's silhouettes blend intimately into the urban landscape, of which they are an integral part.
We see Riyadh through their eyes, and the city's features become subjective tableaux.
Titles are inspired by the interviews.
What if the City was a big yard full of palmtrees ?
Written sunshades
It all becomes approachable
It just allows you to be there
The wind tells me to be here
Hard on the outside, soft on the inside
She belongs to the Night
Gatherings I & II
Changing Moods
Welcoming in her paths
Anchorage
Nature City I & II
The city meets the desert
I draw my strength
