Nestled amidst the poetic landscape of the Saudi Arabia desert, the contemporary art exhibition, Desert X AlUla, returns for its second edition highlighting the work of 15 Saudi and international artists. The magnificent exhibition will run from February 11th to March 30th, and it’s free and open to the public.
Desert X AlUla is a collaboration between Desert X and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) and is curated by Reem Fadda, Raneem Farsi, and Neville Wakefield. The site-responsive exhibition is the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia, building on the legacy of Desert X in California’s Coachella Valley. The project brings together artists, curators, and the community to create a space where art can be experienced on a monumental scale in harmony with nature. Anchored under driving forces of the desert - mirage and oasis - the artists’ works showcase the elusiveness of nature, man’s desire to control it, and, as the art demonstrates, man’s inability to command it. Artists were invited to consider the theme of Sarab, which means mirage in Arabic.
