Abu Dhabi: Emirati artist Shaikha Al Mazrou transforms ideas about water, landscape, and the horizon into sculptures that challenge how we see materials and form.
At Abu Dhabi’s cultural foundation, displayed was her works- Two Horizons which brings together significant works and new commissions by the artist, known for her experimentation across steel, marble, glass, resin, and copper.
"The horizon is never a straight line, but our eyes deceive us into believing it is,” Al Mazrou said as she looks at her own works.
That tension runs through Two Horizons. Known for her material experimentation across steel, marble, glass, resin and copper, she transforms ideas of water, landscape and the horizon into sculptures that challenge how we see materials and form.
When I stood amid the art works, looking to understand what I see, the feeling felt different, still as if time has slowed down and as if I was poetic myself.
A poem, but not a poem
At the heart of the atrium is a work that began far from Abu Dhabi.
Al Mazrou first made it for the Aichi Triennale in Japan. With no fixed location in mind, she toured Nagoya, moving between white-cube spaces and open-air sites, until one place seemed to call to her- a dried-up fountain outside a cultural institution.
