Description: Born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1973, Manal AlDowayan is an artist that has been long invested in interrogating ideas of visibility and invisibility as a critical witness to the cultural metamorphosis engulfing her country and region. Manal has been recognized for her work in sound, neon, and sculpture, and...
Manal AlDowayan is delighted to invite visitors to participate in a site-specific installation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on May 22 at 6 pm.
A landscape of totems and scrolls with printed images and texts in them, will be displayed in the museum’s rotunda. The imaginary presented in the installation consists of excerpts from Guggenheim’s archives, literature, and everyday press and advertising. These excerpts illustrate narratives that have for generations upheld structures oppressing women and girls. Attendees will be invited to walk around the installation, examine and reflect on the texts and images, and finally, in a collective action, destr
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has recently inaugurated the exhibition “Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond“. Manal AlDowayan’s artworks included in the exhibition are “Esmi-My Name” and “The Choice”. It will be on display until 24th September.