Alia Ahmad is a Saudi Arabian contemporary painter whose work centres on the industrialised desert landscape of Riyadh and its surrounding flora. Born in 1996, she lives and works in Riyadh, developing large-scale canvases and works on paper that explore memory, temporality and the affective experience of place within contemporary MENA art. Her practice is deeply informed by Bedouin temporalities, Al Sadu weaving traditions and Arabic calligraphy, which she translates into...