Deliberate Pauses, an installation by Shaikha Al Mazrou, features five bright red metallic discs in the UAE's rocky landscape designed to create moments of stillness. Each disc serves as a conceptual checkpoint, encouraging viewers to reflect on their connection with time and place. The artist collaborated closely with curator Faysal Tabbarah over three years, using intuitive walks and conversations to shape the work, intending for the discs to blend delicately into the environment rather than dominate it, ultimately fostering a deeper appreciation of the land's intricacies.
"I wanted the discs to work with the land's own intricacies, amplifying and negotiating with the space they inhabit, rather than asserting their presence over it."
"Deliberate Pauses invites a physical and conceptual interruption in flow in motion to reorient its viewer's sense of time and place."
"Over the course of three years, the work was gradually shaped by a series of conversations, reflections, iterations, and physical explorations of Hatta's mountains."
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