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
AL-DOHAIYAT (WOMEN FROM DOHA)
Al-Dohaiyat is a monumental sculpture made of rammed earth, shaped to form the Arabic calligraphic rendering 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. The project reflects on how learning, teaching, and cultural continuity are interwoven with identity. Al-Dohaiyat thus becomes more than a sculpture: it is a statement about the foundations that sustain a society and the women who, often silently, hold those foundations together.
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AL-DOHAIYAT (WOMEN FROM DOHA)
Al-Dohaiyat is a monumental sculpture made of rammed earth, shaped to form the Arabic calligraphic rendering 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. The project reflects on how learning, teaching, and cultural continuity are interwoven with identity. Al-Dohaiyat thus becomes more than a sculpture: it is a statement about the foundations that sustain a society and the women who, often silently, hold those foundations together.
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AL-DOHAIYAT (WOMEN FROM DOHA)
Al-Dohaiyat is a monumental sculpture made of rammed earth, shaped to form the Arabic calligraphic rendering 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. The project reflects on how learning, teaching, and cultural continuity are interwoven with identity. Al-Dohaiyat thus becomes more than a sculpture: it is a statement about the foundations that sustain a society and the women who, often silently, hold those foundations together.
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Addawhiyat in process, 2024 - Photo: Joseph Ouechen
Addawhiyat in process, 2024 - Photo: Joseph Ouechen
LIWAN AND MEMORY
The sculpture draws its inspiration from a symbolic site in Doha: Liwan, a former girls' school now transformed into a creative space for artists and designers. During a research residency within its walls, the artist encountered a place profoundly connected to the history of women's education. Beneath the surface of the installation lies a shared memory, a feminine and cultural trajectory that the work honors with both strength and sensitivity. Built using the ancestral technique of rammed earth, practiced for centuries in Morocco, where 13th-century structures still stand, and across other regions of the Arab world, the sculpture invites visitors to walk through the word itself, entering a space infused with memory, sound, and silence. The earth becomes a living material, compacted layer by layer, carrying traces of wisdom, patience, and grounded heritage.
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LIWAN AND MEMORY
The sculpture draws its inspiration from a symbolic site in Doha: Liwan, a former girls' school now transformed into a creative space for artists and designers. During a research residency within its walls, the artist encountered a place profoundly connected to the history of women's education. Beneath the surface of the installation lies a shared memory, a feminine and cultural trajectory that the work honors with both strength and sensitivity. Built using the ancestral technique of rammed earth, practiced for centuries in Morocco, where 13th-century structures still stand, and across other regions of the Arab world, the sculpture invites visitors to walk through the word itself, entering a space infused with memory, sound, and silence. The earth becomes a living material, compacted layer by layer, carrying traces of wisdom, patience, and grounded heritage.
read more
LIWAN AND MEMORY
The sculpture draws its inspiration from a symbolic site in Doha: Liwan, a former girls' school now transformed into a creative space for artists and designers. During a research residency within its walls, the artist encountered a place profoundly connected to the history of women's education. Beneath the surface of the installation lies a shared memory, a feminine and cultural trajectory that the work honors with both strength and sensitivity. Built using the ancestral technique of rammed earth, practiced for centuries in Morocco, where 13th-century structures still stand, and across other regions of the Arab world, the sculpture invites visitors to walk through the word itself, entering a space infused with memory, sound, and silence. The earth becomes a living material, compacted layer by layer, carrying traces of wisdom, patience, and grounded heritage.
read more
Addawhiyat in process, 2024
GESTURE AND METAPHOR
The slow, manual, meditative construction 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 passageway for experience and introspection. This word shaped from earth becomes a kind of inner landscape: a space for memory, reflection, and all that resists being written yet continues to shape who we are. Amy El Gotaibi
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GESTURE AND METAPHOR
The slow, manual, meditative construction 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 passageway for experience and introspection. This word shaped from earth becomes a kind of inner landscape: a space for memory, reflection, and all that resists being written yet continues to shape who we are. Amy El Gotaibi
read more
GESTURE AND METAPHOR
The slow, manual, meditative construction 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 passageway for experience and introspection. This word shaped from earth becomes a kind of inner landscape: a space for memory, reflection, and all that resists being written yet continues to shape who we are. Amy El Gotaibi
read more
Addawhiyat in process, 2024
Addawhiyat in process, 2024
Addawhiyat in process, 2024
