ArtAsiaPacific

MONA SAUDI

In the Middle East, poetry and art are intertwined. As an homage to this relationship, in the Sharjah Art Museum’s solo exhibition of sculptor and poet Mona Saudi, the artist’s works in stone were framed by the intangibility of poetry and her love of modernist poets such as Adonis and Mahmoud Darwish. This tension and harmony, between lightness and weight, defines the urgency of her sculptural

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from ArtAsiaPacific

ArtAsiaPacific10 min read
Kang Seung Lee
Friendship, kinship, community—how can these interpersonal connections be established and maintained across geographies and even across generations? The multiplicity of relationships that Kang Seung Lee forms through his artistic practice is both ima
ArtAsiaPacific1 min read
Mao Ishikawa
For well over four decades, Mao Ishikawa has documented life on the margins of Okinawa, where she was born, as well as those whose presence on the Japanese island has caused great social tension. Some of her early works explored the lives of local ba
ArtAsiaPacific5 min read
24th Biennale of Sydney Ten Thousand Suns
Consider a bamboo blind and the way it obstructs and concedes light across each corded slat; recall the coolness of a material that does not carry heat quite like concrete or brick. Placed in a climate-controlled museum, the defunct blind-turned-exhi

Related Books & Audiobooks