27 Feb 2022 - 29 May 2022
Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall
Application deadline: January 22, 2022
Duration: February 27, 2022 - May 28, 2022
Visual Art,Photography
The Spring 2022 cycle of the Masaha Residency will focus on bringing together emerging and mid-career creatives, hosting 10 artists and 1 writer for a 3-month period of discourse, research, and experimentation at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall in Riyadh.
Attempting to capture every memory through social media is making us overlook the present reality as we try to document every second. The desire to perform and share have led to an overabundance of images, most of them left forgotten in a digital folder, which brings up the idea - what is the point of “capturing the moment”? What are we trying to archive? How is the lens interwoven with our need to create, record and remember?
We invite Saudi and international lens-based artists to explore how the medium redefines nostalgia, and how the memory created can collapse time and make experiences both shared and personal through their practice. Images have changed history. Technology has changed what is remembered and how people react to memory. Making and distributing images are easier, faster, and less expensive. In this residency lens-based artists are encouraged to explore how the role of the lens is changing and what that change looks like.
The Masaha Residency will highlight the search for new ways of remembering, being, and moving forward through photographic and new media exploration. We invite creatives to raise questions about the future of the medium for a globally connected audience and the role of the artist in that conversation.
Artists who focus on lens-based art including photography, film and new media art. Specific areas of lens-based and light-based media are listed below:
The 3-month Masaha Residency is specifically designed to support 10 artists and 1 writer-in-residence to conceive and create pivotal art projects. The Residency is designed to allow artists to pursue new projects and ideas with the aid of cutting-edge supplementary programming to further their artistic development. The Masaha Residency supports regional, national, and international artists in the creation of new art, engaging with local communities towards global art practices and experiences.