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MONA SAUDI

In the Middle East, poetry and art are intertwined. As an homage to this relationship, in the Sharjah Art Museum’s solo exhibition of sculptor and poet Mona Saudi, the artist’s works in stone were framed by the intangibility of poetry and her love of modernist poets such as Adonis and Mahmoud Darwish. This tension and harmony, between lightness and weight, defines the urgency of her sculptural

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