Arab News reported on the opening of Diriyah Art Futures, a new media-arts hub in Saudi Arabia's historic Diriyah district, whose first show, Art Must Be Artificial: Perspectives of AI in the Visual Arts, opened to the public and ran to 15 February. Curated by Jerome Neutres, formerly of the Reunion des Musees Nationaux-Grand Palais in Paris, the exhibition brought together more than 30 international and regional artists tracing computer art from the 1960s to the present.
The piece named Lulwah Al Homoud among three Saudi artists in the show, alongside Muhannad Shono and Nasser Al-Shemimry. Diriyah Art Futures' director framed the initiative as part of an ambition to make Saudi Arabia a global centre of exchange in emerging fields, describing an accompanying emerging-artists programme developed with a French institution and a residency planned for the following spring, focused on nature, technology and society.
The feature situates Al Homoud's practice, long rooted in geometric abstraction and Islamic systems of pattern and calligraphy, within Saudi Arabia's fast-expanding new-media infrastructure, an institutional setting distinct from the gallery presentations of her work that Tabari has staged in Dubai.
