Reem Falaknaz: The Place of Perpetual Undulation

Reem Falaknaz’s exploration of small Emirati villages began several years ago when, struck by the drastic developmental changes these villages and their surrounding landscapes faced, she decided to capture the shift through the lens of her camera.

Concentrated on the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, the exhibition showcases the life of the local people and the life
of the surrounding mountains – a constant source of stone and raw construction material for an emirate with a rapidly developing and ravenously demanding infrastructure. As the artist explains, “Ras Al Khaimah, where the series is set, is a mountainous area that is being flattened to pave way for new resorts and hotels, or by quarry sites for providing the building materials for places like these resorts.”