Curated by Reem Fadda, Raneem Farsi, and Neville Wakefield, this year’s program brings together voices from across the world under the theme “Sarab.” It “explores ideas of mirage and oasis, both intrinsic to desert history and culture, that have taken complex worldwide significance over time,” according to Desert X’s official website. © Stephanie DeumerĪ public, recurring event, Desert X first appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Stephanie Deumer, Under the Same Sun, installation view, Desert X AlUla 2022, build: UAP, Constantine KSA, Silicon Solar, and FVR Innovation Hub, courtesy the artist and Desert X AlUla.“It uses media in a way that’s almost utilitarian-in a sense-as well as being an installation.” “I was really fascinated by making this self-sustaining system in a way that uses media,” says Deumer, who is among 15 artists invited to exhibit at Desert X AIUla’s second edition. Bathed in a video livestream from the surface, the plants have light to grow, thanks to a nearby installation of off-the-grid solar panels. In the Saudi Arabian desert this year, Deumer has melded those passions in a subterranean installation at the latest Desert X AIUla exhibition-an international show heralded as “magnificent” in Forbes.ĭeumer’s work there, Under the Same Sun, features a greenhouse of native plants in a roughly room-sized underground space. She’s also big into plant life, especially artificial plant growth. Stephanie Deumer (Art MFA 15) casts her art as a “slow, digestive process”-steeped in research, nurtured with deep thought, often taking shape through video and light-based media.
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