Arab News published a profile of Saudi artist Lulwah Al Homoud by writer Dalal Awienat on 10 July 2025, timed to her presentation at The Digital Art Mile in Basel, Switzerland, staged alongside that year's Art Basel. The piece traces her path into art from an initial degree in sociology, through a later switch into visual communication design and an MA from Central Saint Martins in London, and her early career curating exhibitions of Middle Eastern artists before she turned to making work herself.
The article centres on her series The Language of Existence, in which she assigns a distinct geometric shape to each letter of the Arabic alphabet, building what she describes as a language that cannot be read in the conventional sense. She is quoted explaining the idea directly: "I created different geometric shapes assigned to each letter...a new language that cannot be read, but can be felt more." The piece also covers Al Homoud's view of Islamic art as a shared meeting point of art and science, and her founding of Isdar, a Riyadh art centre set up to teach fine art and mentor emerging Saudi artists.
The Basel presentation places Lulwah Al Homoud's newest geometric compositions within a practice built over more than two decades, moving from her early study of Islamic calligraphy and geometry into the letter-based visual language of The Language of Existence. Readers wanting to see where that language began should look to her earlier bound books and light-box works exploring the same series, the foundation this Basel showing continues to build on.
