Reem Al Faisal Al Saud: Chiaroscuro

This exhibition is Reem Al Faisal’s culmination of twenty five years of experimentation in photography. Throughout this period, this innovative and creative photographer has continuously challenged herself, mediating her work in black and white, and intensifying her dalliance with light and shade. Reem Al Faisal is one of very few contemporary and internationally renowned photographers of Arab origin with a distinct and instantly recognizable signature: her mastery of the art of darkening and illuminating everything she captures with her camera.

The Chiaroscuro retrospective exhibition can be described as a single woven piece whose threads of light are floating in an intimate entanglement, imperceptible to the uninitiated. The artistic and spiritual concerns of artist-photographer Reem Al Faisal are summarized and reflected in Chiaroscuro as a complete work comparable with that of artist James Turrell and photographer Lilian Bassman. Similarly, Reem Al Faisal also worked on the dematerialization of light and emergence and dissolution of color combined with the will to offer spaces for visual and physical sensations.