Alaa Tarabzouni

AL-SOM

Alaa Tarabzouni, Untitled, from the series AL SOM (2019) archival pigment print, variable sizes. Courtesy of Saudi Art Council.

The images depict a number of barricades/boundaries of varying degrees of permeability, including both man-made and natural structures. By documenting Riyadh’s barricading features, the artist draws attention to the prescribed and dictated relationship that the city and its inhabitants share.

Influenced by her academic background and training in architecture, Alaa Tarabzouni’s practice is concerned with urbanity and the built environment. Traditionally trained as an architect, with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture from Newcastle University in England, and Pratt Institute in New York. She is also currently pursuing a second Master’s in Arts and Cultural Enterprise at UAL: Central Saint Martins.

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