Nouf Al-Harthi
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‘On the Red Sea’
Al-Harthi, who was born in Asir, is, according to the exhibition catalogue, “an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and storyteller whose practice moves between sound, poetry, and music.” In a new commission for the biennale, she contributes this performance and poetry recital, which “focuses on sea sawdust, a type of marine bacteria that forms blooms during the hottest months.” As they decay, they turn from green to a reddish-brown, and it’s believed that the sighting of slicks of these bacteria is why the Red Sea is so named. In her piece, Al-Harthi uses sea sawdust “as a lens for deconstructing the relationship between human and non-human,” the catalogue states. “Reading the sea and the waves as sites of knowledge production, ‘On the Red Sea’ shifts our perspective through the biological and the mythical, weaving a network of envirionmental, historical, and linguistic relations.”
Ahaad Alamoudi
