For Project Space 11, Al Saadi is invited to the Museum to explore experimental processes of research, production, and conceptual thinking to develop a proposal for a public sculpture in Doha. This artist led project gives Al Saadi the space and time to widen current intellectual threads of research on tendencies of self-expression and social rituals, as well as the role of public art in Doha.
As a place for exploration, discussion, and making, Proposal for a Public Sculpture takes the shape of the artist's studio; a library of working documents, books, and recorded interviews; a place for the display of working drawings and sculpture maquettes; and a meeting point for knowledge exchange and debate. This takes place in dialogue with the Museum teams, the public, creative and spatial practitioners, and academics in the humanities and social sciences, through a program of open forum discussions.
In this project Al Saadi’s research methodologies and processes can become as elastic as the subjects they contain, widening the artist’s conceptual thinking and production, as well as opening a public space for debate, encounters, and curatorial experimentation around art as part of daily life.
Curator, Laura Barlow
Curatorial Assistant, Abdulrahman Alkubaisi
The Artist
Hana Al Saadi (b.1989, Doha, Qatar) holds a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from VCU-Qatar. Recent group exhibitions include Contemporary Art Qatar, Kraftwerk, Berlin, 2017; 20/20/20, VCU Qatar, Doha, 2017; Unfolding Creative Methods, Artist in Residence exhibition, Fire Station, Doha, 2017; and Artist in Residence Exhibition, Fire Station, Doha, 2015-2016. Al Saadi has been artist in residence at the Fire Station, Doha in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. Her work is held in the collections of Qatar Museum and VCUarts Qatar.