![]() Tavares Strachan’s interventions create the phrase ‘I am’ from above. ![]() ‘For me, the I is not about the self, but the extended self is everything.’ ‘I was thinking about humans’ relationship to the environment and how that’s changed over a million years, and either the connection or separation that we feel to the larger environment,’ says Tavares Strachan, the Bahamas-born, New York-based artist behind the project. The effect was almost like navigating the kind of terrain one would imagine would be on a planet in outer space. As darkness fell, 290 patches of light illuminated the ground, spreading over 100,000 sq ft – the size of two American football fields. Stephanie Deumer has created an underground greenhouse hinting at the lush sanctuary of native plants below, a large puddle-shaped array of solar panels mounted flush with the desert floor creates an energy feedback loop where the energy of the sun is captured, stored and transformed through photosynthesis into growth and transformation.Hundreds of people gathered in an empty patch of desert in the Coachella Valley at dusk last Friday. The backdrop of the orange desert and the bright blue sky only adds to the drama.Įlsewhere, Shezad Dawood's work explores ideas of deep time and the geo-biological relationship between the desert floor and the nearby Red Sea through a pair of coral-like forms whose temperature-sensitive surfaces reflect the effects of climate change and humankind's continuing struggle to find a sustainable relationship with a rapidly changing ecosystem. Alicja Kwade's architectural structures, meanwhile, reflect and frame the natural artefacts she encountered on the desert floor, which she rearranged and supplemented to create changing perspectives that strike a fine line between reality and illusion.Īlicja Kwade Desert X AlUla 2022, photo by Lance GerberĬlaudia Comte's work features a progression of walls imposing their architectural presence within the natural order of the AlUla canyons, with each carrying a section of a larger algorithmic pattern relating to the waveforms that shape the sound and surface of the desert. While land artist Jim Denevan has created ephemeral drawings whose interlocking patterns "speak to the shifts in magnitude and scale that so often shape our experience of the desert and our attempts to position ourselves within the vastness of unbounded space". It builds on the legacy of Desert X, the renowned event that takes place in California's Coachella Valley every year.ĭana Awartani's sculpture draws inspiration from the vernacular architecture of AlUla, taking the form of a concave geometric sculpture that references the Nabataean tombs and mimics the shapes of surrounding mountains, gorges, caverns and rock formations. It hopes to bring artists, curators and international and local communities together in a shared vision that takes the desert as its inspiration. ![]() Set in the Al Mutadil valley, participating artists have responded to this year's theme with new works of dreams, camouflage, fiction, disappearance, extraction, illusion and myth, while also exploring the paradox between natural and human-made worlds.Īs part of a collaboration between Desert X and the Royal Commission for AlUla, Desert X AlUla is the first site-responsive exhibition of its kind in Saudi Arabia. Curated by Reem Fadda, Raneem Farsi and Neville Wakefield, the extraordinary outdoor show is once again free and open to all, giving us an exclusive insight into desert history and culture.
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