DUBAI: Here are three highlights from Ahaad Alamoudi’s ‘Moving Mountains,’ which runs until Oct. 26 at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah.
‘Moving Mountains’
The title work from the Saudi artist’s exhibition is a short film that “continues Alamoudi’s expansive exploration of rapidly changing social and cultural environments, situating Saudi’s natural and urban landscapes as sites of possibility — punctured by effort and powered by fantasy,” according to the gallery.
‘What is This?’
The latest iteration of Alamoudi’s ongoing video series that features two talking falcons — which have, the gallery says, “in some ways acted as a temperature check as they react loudly to their changing surroundings” — has them facing away from each other on back-to-back screens exclaiming “I don’t remember this being here,” and “Do you see what I see?”
“I Was Told Ice Wouldn’t Melt in Heat”
In this video, a detail of which is shown here, a man in a white thobe circles a large block of ice in the desert for four hours trying various ways to prevent it from melting in the blazing heat. “Although driven by a delusional belief in what he was told, the feat ultimately proves impossible,” the gallery caption states.
