Diriyah Art Futures has announced a new exhibition in collaboration with 40 artists who use new technologies to express their thoughts, according to Arab News.
Titled “Maknana: An Archaeology of New Media Art,” the exhibition will focus on several 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 event will run from April 21 to July 19, at DAF in Diriyah, Riyadh.
The event will explore the geographies, technological paradigms, as well as the artistic concerns and gestures across various generations through the four key themes of Automation, Autonomy, Ripples, and Glitch,
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
The artworks engage with urgent sociopolitical contexts from networked resistance and machine logic to memory preservation, speculative ecologies, and glitch aesthetics.
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