Ayman Zedani

The Valley of The Desert Keepers

Born in Saudi Arabia, Zedani’s practice manifests in objects and multilayered installations; it attempts to renegotiate the relationship between human and nonhuman, animal and plant, organic and inorganic, land and water. His conceptual works are built on a series of experiments and investigations that look towards new materialist philosophies exploring the agency of matter and that consider multispecies collaboration as a way of surviving the challenges of the Anthropocene. He deliberates upon human influence on the state, upon the dynamic and future of the Earth. 

Zedani’s recent projects include Between Desert Seas, Diriyah Biennale (2021); Earthseed, Noor Riyad (2021); Terrapolis at the Sustainability Pavilion Terra, Expo 2020, Dubai; Between the Heavens and the Earth, Lahore Biennial (2020), and the return of the old ones, Jeddah (2020). He won the inaugural Ithra Art Prize and presented his debut solo show titled bahar-bashar-shajar-hajar (sea-human-tree-stone), curated by Murtaza Vali, at Athr Gallery, Jeddah (2019).