Addawhiyat , Installation, rammed earth, 13 x 3 x 2,5 m / 2024 - Park of Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Addawhiyat , Installation, rammed earth, 13 x 3 x 2,5 m / 2024
Park of Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
ADDAWHIYAT-SABOURA (SACRIFICE-SLATE)
'Saboura,' employs wool to play with the symbolism of a blackboard, an iconic representation of education. During a residency in Doha, the artist visited to Liwan, previously a school for girls. He was inspired by the preserved blackboards, a testament to the history and significance of the space. In 'Saboura,' wool originates from the blackboard and flows through the space, representing the flow of thoughts and ideas. The wool, both as a material and in its form, symbolizes how organic ideas emerge from a foundation of learning and transform into concepts, philosophies, and stories. The contrast between this human structure and the utility of the mind serves as a perfect symbol of hope and optimism for the future.
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ADDAWHIYAT-SABOURA (SACRIFICE-SLATE)
'Saboura,' employs wool to play with the symbolism of a blackboard, an iconic representation of education. During a residency in Doha, the artist visited to Liwan, previously a school for girls. He was inspired by the preserved blackboards, a testament to the history and significance of the space. In 'Saboura,' wool originates from the blackboard and flows through the space, representing the flow of thoughts and ideas. The wool, both as a material and in its form, symbolizes how organic ideas emerge from a foundation of learning and transform into concepts, philosophies, and stories. The contrast between this human structure and the utility of the mind serves as a perfect symbol of hope and optimism for the future.
read more
ADDAWHIYAT-SABOURA (SACRIFICE-SLATE)
'Saboura,' employs wool to play with the symbolism of a blackboard, an iconic representation of education. During a residency in Doha, the artist visited to Liwan, previously a school for girls. He was inspired by the preserved blackboards, a testament to the history and significance of the space. In 'Saboura,' wool originates from the blackboard and flows through the space, representing the flow of thoughts and ideas. The wool, both as a material and in its form, symbolizes how organic ideas emerge from a foundation of learning and transform into concepts, philosophies, and stories. The contrast between this human structure and the utility of the mind serves as a perfect symbol of hope and optimism for the future.
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Saboura, wool and corten steel, 14x3,5m / 2024 - Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Saboura, wool and corten steel, 14x3,5m / 2024 - Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
RAMMED EARTH MEMORY
Al-Dohaiyat is a monumental sculpture made of rammed earth, shaped into the Arabic calligraphy of the word “Al-Dohaiyat”, meaning “the women of Doha.” Through this work, the artist pays tribute to the women of Qatar - figures of knowledge, transmission, and innovation - and affirms the essential role of education in the Arab world, particularly for women. Al-Dohaiyat embodies an ideology of education, made tangible through matter and form. The work draws its inspiration from a symbolic site in Doha: Liwan, a former girls’ school that has been transformed into a creative space for artists and designers. During a research residency held within its walls, the artist encountered a place deeply connected to the history of women’s education. Beneath the surface of the installation lies a shared memory, a feminine and cultural trajectory the work honors with both strength and sensitivity.
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RAMMED EARTH MEMORY
Al-Dohaiyat is a monumental sculpture made of rammed earth, shaped into the Arabic calligraphy of the word “Al-Dohaiyat”, meaning “the women of Doha.” Through this work, the artist pays tribute to the women of Qatar - figures of knowledge, transmission, and innovation - and affirms the essential role of education in the Arab world, particularly for women. Al-Dohaiyat embodies an ideology of education, made tangible through matter and form. The work draws its inspiration from a symbolic site in Doha: Liwan, a former girls’ school that has been transformed into a creative space for artists and designers. During a research residency held within its walls, the artist encountered a place deeply connected to the history of women’s education. Beneath the surface of the installation lies a shared memory, a feminine and cultural trajectory the work honors with both strength and sensitivity.
read more
RAMMED EARTH MEMORY
Al-Dohaiyat is a monumental sculpture made of rammed earth, shaped into the Arabic calligraphy of the word “Al-Dohaiyat”, meaning “the women of Doha.” Through this work, the artist pays tribute to the women of Qatar - figures of knowledge, transmission, and innovation - and affirms the essential role of education in the Arab world, particularly for women. Al-Dohaiyat embodies an ideology of education, made tangible through matter and form. The work draws its inspiration from a symbolic site in Doha: Liwan, a former girls’ school that has been transformed into a creative space for artists and designers. During a research residency held within its walls, the artist encountered a place deeply connected to the history of women’s education. Beneath the surface of the installation lies a shared memory, a feminine and cultural trajectory the work honors with both strength and sensitivity.
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Addawhiyat in process, 2024
CALLIGRAPHY BECOMES ARCHITECTURE
Built using the ancestral technique of rammed earth, practiced for centuries in Morocco - where 13th-century buildings still stand - and shared across other regions of the Arab world, the sculpture invites visitors to walk through the word itself, to enter a space infused with memory and meaning. The earth becomes a living material, compacted layer by layer, holding traces of wisdom and rootedness. This slow, manual, meditative process involves assembling steel formworks, filling them with earth, and gradually dismantling and repositioning them as the wall rises. The repetition of this gesture is an art in itself - an architectural ritual, attuned to climate, nature, and the rhythm of time. By transposing this vernacular technique into the realm of contemporary art, the artist creates a living metaphor: walls that safeguard ideas, calligraphic forms that give shape to thought, and materials that connect heritage to possibility. Freed from the traditional surface, calligraphy here becomes architecture - a space for experience and introspection. This word carved into earth becomes a kind of inner landscape: a space for memory, reflection, and all that resists being written.
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CALLIGRAPHY BECOMES ARCHITECTURE
Built using the ancestral technique of rammed earth, practiced for centuries in Morocco - where 13th-century buildings still stand - and shared across other regions of the Arab world, the sculpture invites visitors to walk through the word itself, to enter a space infused with memory and meaning. The earth becomes a living material, compacted layer by layer, holding traces of wisdom and rootedness. This slow, manual, meditative process involves assembling steel formworks, filling them with earth, and gradually dismantling and repositioning them as the wall rises. The repetition of this gesture is an art in itself - an architectural ritual, attuned to climate, nature, and the rhythm of time. By transposing this vernacular technique into the realm of contemporary art, the artist creates a living metaphor: walls that safeguard ideas, calligraphic forms that give shape to thought, and materials that connect heritage to possibility. Freed from the traditional surface, calligraphy here becomes architecture - a space for experience and introspection. This word carved into earth becomes a kind of inner landscape: a space for memory, reflection, and all that resists being written.
read more
CALLIGRAPHY BECOMES ARCHITECTURE
Built using the ancestral technique of rammed earth, practiced for centuries in Morocco - where 13th-century buildings still stand - and shared across other regions of the Arab world, the sculpture invites visitors to walk through the word itself, to enter a space infused with memory and meaning. The earth becomes a living material, compacted layer by layer, holding traces of wisdom and rootedness. This slow, manual, meditative process involves assembling steel formworks, filling them with earth, and gradually dismantling and repositioning them as the wall rises. The repetition of this gesture is an art in itself - an architectural ritual, attuned to climate, nature, and the rhythm of time. By transposing this vernacular technique into the realm of contemporary art, the artist creates a living metaphor: walls that safeguard ideas, calligraphic forms that give shape to thought, and materials that connect heritage to possibility. Freed from the traditional surface, calligraphy here becomes architecture - a space for experience and introspection. This word carved into earth becomes a kind of inner landscape: a space for memory, reflection, and all that resists being written.
read more
