Opacities

Raneem Ayyad

Opacities is an interactive live art piece that depicts what it was like to live in an apartment in the Saudi city of Hail. The artist narrates how Saudi Arabian spatial characteristics have influenced domestic settings in neighboring countries such as Jordan and Egypt through the work migration of middle-class families to Saudi Arabia. Opacities investigates the tensions between home surveillance, architectural typologies, and the obsession with privacy that is controlled by the patriarchal system and influenced by spiritual beliefs.

Photo by Nour Annan ’23