Fine to Finite- الموجود المحدود

Commissioned and acquired by Ithra (King Abdul Azizi Center of Arts & Culture) for Net Zero Exhibition,, curated by Candida Pestana

“Sometimes the evidence is Absence”

This installation sheds the light on “sand” as a finite resource in our infinite linear consumerist systems we build; based on the take, make, and dispose. Sand is the third consumed resource on the planet after air and water, where the main driver of this crisis is breakneck urbanization. River sand mining is now a global pressing issue contributing to the slow-motion disappearance of Deltas and lands, carried and shipped usually from the undeveloped to the developed countries and hence contributing to the global warming crisis we are living.

 This precious grain, trivial though it may seem, is a critical ingredient of our lives it is the primary raw material that modern cities are made from which is mainly glass.

 The exterior shell of the installation is a series of identical monoliths of recycled mirrors shaping the round interior space where the sand dune sits in the middle. The mirrors represent our urban cities at the same time puts the visitor or the viewer as part of the art work, as the observer where he is left questioning his role in this infinite system.

The dune which resembles a temple in its architecture and celebrates the beauty of “Infinite Geometries” is built up from 289 pixelated crystals using sand from Jordan, unit is shaped by the negative-void generated by the pyramid (Sierpinski Triangle) meaning what is no longer a part of it at a given stage of growth. A pixelated terrain of the excavated destroyed shapes that have collapsed in order, resembling the what is left, mimicking the landscapes of man-made excavations.

The dune slowly rotates on a stainless steel plate resembling the machineries, excavations and mining, with a collage of soundscape; a construction site, a stone quarry, a river and the sound of crushed glass being walked on.