“In your Place of Prayer and Divine Plea, I Became Aware in The Night of Destiny”
Through her artwork “In Your Place of Prayer and Divine Plea, I Became Aware in The Night of Destiny”, the artist Raghad Al-Ahmed aims to express her personal journey through the manifestation of grief in an exploration of the inner soul.
This artwork is an invitation for visitors to seek healing through an experience of their personal meditation on prayer (Dua’a).
Bringing out the divine in the mundanity of daily life, the artist aims to elevate the human experience, drawing on the heritage of Islamic architectural design as a lifestyle, beyond the physicality of the Holy book and spaces of worship. Through this artwork Al-Ahmed wishes to relay the spiritual connection of love with the audience. Combining spiritual and contemporary art mediums defines a thoughtful demonstration focused on a strong traditional foundation without relinquishing its relationship to the modern world.
Raghad Al-Ahmed is an experimental multi-medium artist based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She graduated with a degree in interior design and furniture at King Abdulaziz University in 2016. Al-Ahmed uses a variety of mediums such as collage, installation, sculpture, and digital film as mediums of expression. The artist, influenced by her diverse cultural background as the daughter of a tribe roots growing up in the Hejazi western strip of Saudi, she draws from Islamic belief and tradition and creates exuberant artworks using familiar elements of Islamic architecture and a myriad of urban geometric design patterns, in an amalgamation of divine devotion, urban life and technology. Al-Ahmed has participated in various group and solo exhibitions in the KSA and the gcc countries
