13-04-2025
Diriyah Art Futures Launches New Exhibition for Digital Artists
Diriyah Art Futures has unveiled a new stunning exhibition in collaboration with 40 artists who depend on technologies to express their thoughts, according to Arab News.
Titled 'Maknana: An Archaeology of New Media Art,' the exhibition will feature a series of artistic practices, rare archival works, recent digital experiments, and new commissions gathering artists from the MENA region.
Co-curated by artists Haytham Nawar and Ala Younis, the occasion will take place from April 21 to July 19, at DAF in Diriyah, Riyadh.
Through the four key themes of Automation, Autonomy, Ripples, and Glitch, the event will explore the geographies, technological paradigms, as well as the artistic concerns and gestures across various generations.
The exhibition will showcase several artworks by various Saudi artists, as follows: Ahmed Mater
Muhannad Shono
Abdullah Rashed
VJ Um Amel (Laila Shereen Sakr)
Abdel Hadi El Gazzar
Emily Jacir
Mona Hatoum
Walid Raad
Akram Zaatari
Hassan Meer
Hicham Berrada
Farah Al-Qasimi
From networked resistance and machine logic to memory preservation, speculative ecologies, and glitch aesthetics, the artworks interact with urgent sociopolitical contexts.
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