Their site-specific installations ask questions about the qualities of time, place and displacement in the Middle East, often through explorations of intangible heritage and culture.
Duo Sawsan Al Bahar and Bahar Al Bahar’s evolving and interdisciplinary practice is centred on the analogue-digital, and the material, formal and conceptual crossovers in between. Their site-specific installations ask questions about the qualities of time, place and displacement in the Middle East, often through explorations of intangible heritage and culture.
Between them Bahar and Sawsan have worked, published and exhibited nationally and globally, most recently shortlisted for the Richard Mille Art Prize in 2023 for their artwork “Waterdust” exhibited at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. In 2022, Sawsan was awarded the Massimiliano Galliani Prize for Drawing under 35, while Bahar’s Masters group project ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016/17 was published and featured in Archdaily, Dezeen and Design Boom.