Shaikha Al Mazrou, Measuring the Physicality of Void, installation view, Desert X AlUla 2022, courtesy the artist and Desert X AlUla. Photography: Lance Gerber
Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce Shaikha Al Mazrou's Measuring Physicality of Void installations at the second edition of Desert X AlUla. The site-responsive contemporary art festival is open to the public from February 11th to March 30th and will feature fifteen Saudi and international artists, exploring the theme of Sarab — mirages and oases.
Shaikha Al Mazrou’s lengthy copper-made, inflated structures are wedged in the voids of rocks, balanced in the landscape, occupying a liminal state between stasis and movement, examining the split between the natural and man-made worlds. Through the distortion of industrial metal sheets into misshapen forms, the work portrays a physical experimental process, rather than adhering to pure formalism.
This year's event was organized by Reema Fadda, Raneem Farsi, and Neville Wakefield, the founding creative director of Desert X. It takes place in the Al-Mutadil valley in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. The works displayed at the festival are rooted in notions of literature, nature, history, and culture, congenial to the desert environment in which they’ve been displayed.
