Perhaps the biggest motif in her practice has been oil-a substance inextricably tied to the history of Kuwait, where she was raised. Over the past decade, she has made work that explores the joys, the dangers and the otherworldliness that oil represents.
Science fiction and her own autobiography are key themes in her work. Her shimmering, rainbow-hued renderings of oil drills, for example, reference the pearl trade-once so important to the Persian Gulf-and her grandfather's career as a singer on a pearling boat.
An oversized balloon resembling petrochemical compounds, it is an imposing addition to what is the institution's first exhibition in its new space, located in a former champagne factory.
I've been working around this topic for around 11 years now. My ideas are really developing in terms of this relationship between humans and nature, and how we approach this ecological, environmental condition.
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