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This contemporary art piece, titled "Beacon", features a striking visual composition of vertical metal rods of varying heights, creating a towering, illuminated sculpture in a lush, verdant park setting. The work's minimalist and industrial aesthetic, with its clean lines and precision-engineered design, contrasts with the natural surroundings, inviting viewers to contemplate the relationship between the man-made and the natural world. The artist's intention behind this piece seems to be to explore themes of technology, spirituality, and the human desire to reach towards the divine, as suggested by the sculpture's resemblance to a religious or ceremonial structure. ...
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Sophia Al Maria
B.1983, Qatari/AmericanSophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker living and working in London. Though her work spans many disciplines including drawing, film and screen-writing for TV, it is united by a preoccupation with the power of storytelling and myth, and in particular with imagining revisionist histories and alternative futures. With her friend and collaborator Fatima Al Qadiri, Al-Maria coined the term “Gulf Futurism” to describe the growing atomisation of individuals and the shifting ground of urban planning, aesthetics, and media, and their impact on everyday life in the post-oil Persian Gulf. Her cinematic artist’s videos are fuelled by the combination of critical rigour with an affective charge in their explorations of language, imperialism, and counter-histories – a deep investigation and dramatisation of the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental present. ...
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Project Native Informant
LondonContemporary art gallery established in 2013 with a strong interest in expanded institutional critique. Project Native Informant works with 16 artists and collectives, producing 5-6 exhibitions per year and hosting performances, concerts, talks and events.