Harper's Bazaar Arabia's Rebecca Anne Proctor profiled the Saudi artist Lulwah Al Homoud around her exhibition Beyond the Grid at Tabari Artspace in Dubai, describing her large-scale, minimalist compositions as a form of geometric Optical Art built from Arabic letterforms. The show presented fifty silkscreens from her 99 Names of God series, displayed as limited-edition bound books rather than as single framed works.
Proctor traces Al Homoud's biography — born in Riyadh in 1967, sociology studies at King Saud University, an MA from Central Saint Martins in London — and quotes her describing her method as research into "the hidden rules of creation, not the outer appearance of things, but how they are created mathematically, from a seed to a tree." The article also notes her use of the Vedic square, a multiplication grid originating in North India, as a structuring device across the calligraphic compositions.
Beyond the Grid, discussed here in detail, sits within Lulwah Al Homoud's wider practice of treating Arabic script as a mathematical and spiritual system rather than a purely decorative one, work that has continued through her later exhibitions and gallery representation with Tabari Artspace.
