@home with ... MANAL AL DOWAYAN, MUHANNAD SHONO, MOHAMMED AHMED IBRAHIM, NADIM KARAM & SHERIN GUIRGUIS / Al Ula Series

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"Al Ula, the hidden gem continues ... Desert X Al Ula artists in conversation"

Desert X Al Ula is the first site‐responsive exhibition of its kind in Saudi Arabia. An exploration of desert culture, the exhibition is a cross‐cultural dialogue between artists from Saudi Arabia and its surrounding region and artists from previous iterations of Desert X in California, taking its cues from the extraordinary landscape and historical significance of Al Ula.

Manal Al Dowayan is Saudi multidisciplinary artist. Long invested in interrogating the gender‐biased customs that impact the condition of women in Saudi Arabia. She is a sensitive yet critical witness to the cultural metamorphosis engulfing the Kingdom.

Al Dowayan’s practice navigates a territory where the personal and the political overlap. Her works spring from lived experiences—these intimate encounters with social injustice, the pangs of memory and forgetting.

Muhannad Shono is a Saudi…