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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Safeya Sharif Al Awadhi, Lines of Persistence, 2026

Safeya Sharif Al Awadhi UAE, b. 1999

Lines of Persistence, 2026
Aluminum sculpture
107.5 x 235.5 x 3 cm
42 3/8 x 92 3/4 x 1 1/8 in
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The desert unfolds as a landscape shaped by endurance, a terrain in constant motion yet defined by quiet persistence. Formed through wind, time, and rare moments of water, the dunes...
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The desert unfolds as a landscape shaped by endurance, a terrain in constant motion yet defined by quiet persistence. Formed through wind, time, and rare moments of water, the dunes shift without losing their presence, continually remaking themselves while remaining unmistakably whole. This work emerges from observing these subtle transformations: contours traced from the land and reimagined as lines that drift, gather, and disperse across the surface. The compositions do not depict the desert directly but echo its rhythms, accumulation, erosion, and renewal. Between stillness and movement, the desert reveals a form of resilience that is neither forceful nor declared. Its strength lies in adaptation, in the ability to change while enduring. Through layered outlines translated into aluminum, the work holds fleeting formations in suspension, allowing temporary moments of the landscape to persist beyond their passing.
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