Black & White

In Black & White, two vast, softly bounded forms hover in space. Their rounded contours suggest volumes of condensed atmosphere. Their scale gives colour a bodily force, drawing the viewer into the passage between them.

Black and white occupy space as opposing sculptural forms, giving light and darkness a physical presence. Their contrast is experienced through the body as the viewer approaches each volume and moves between them. Both colours appear substantial, yet their diffuse boundaries hold them between material presence and atmospheric sensation.

The title invokes black and white thinking, in which experience is divided into opposing categories. The installation gives this division physical power, while its shifting appearance complicates the certainty of either extreme. As viewers move, the apparent density and definition of the forms change with position. Standing between them, the viewer encounters both the force of their opposition and the ambiguity within each.

Black & White was commissioned by the Royal Commission for Riyadh City and presented at Noor Riyadh in 2022, curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, Dorothy Di Stefano and Jumana Ghouth.