(21 Jul 2024)
UK SAUDI ARTIST
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Christie’s, London, United Kingdom – 17 July 2024
1. Close top view of Magnetism Book by Dr Ahmed Mater (2024)
2. Pull focus on iron filings
3. Wide of Magnetism by Mater (2009)
4. Close of same
5. Pull focus of same
6. Wide pans right of room housing Magnetism series
7. Various set up shots of Dr Ahmed Mater
8. Wide low angle of Dr Ahmed Mater passing through his piece Boundary (2024)
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Ahmed Mater, artist from Saudi Arabia
“With the art I would not go with the idea of direct racism. I’m not projecting very direct thought. For me art is a more philosophical, let’s take it from this side saying ‘What about the word in the dictionary called Islamophobia and why Islam is only connected with the phobia in the dictionary for example. So yes, it’s about surveillance and we build this in ourself.”
10. Close tilt up of detail on Boundary
11. Wide of Evolution of Man by Mater (2010)
12. Close detail of same
13. Close of barrels in photograph by Mater Empty Land (2012)
14. Close of Gas Station photograph by Mater (2013)
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Ahmed Mater, artist from Saudi Arabia
“Everyone says ‘oil country, oil country’ so really it was a statement that it’s not only that. If we think for ourselves we are an oil culture then it’s not…. It’s like a person who (commits) suicides and putting himself with this idea, so.”
16. Various set up shots of Dr Ridha Moumni
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Ridha Moumni, chairman of Middle East and Africa, Christie’s
“Ahmed Mater is one of the most talented artists from Saudi Arabia and from the Arab world. When we wanted to do an exhibition here at Christie’s we wanted to display one of the most beautiful and intelligent artists from the region. And we also thought Ahmed Mater would be an artist who would bring people from the Middle East who will be here in the summer at Christie’s but also international visitors to discover what is the art, but also the social and cultural background in the Middle East through his art works.”
18. Wide of exhibition space for Ahmed Mater retrospective
19. Wide pan right of room filled with Mater’s photographs
20. Wide of From the Real to the Symbolic City photograph by Ahmed Mater (2012)
21. Close pan of same
22. Close pan of Human Highway photograph by Ahmed Mater (2012)
23. Mid zoom of Kaaba View photograph by Ahmed Mater (2015)
24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Ridha Moumni, chairman of Middle East and Africa, Christie’s
“Ahmed Mater was a medical doctor and he has been developing a body of work focussing on the human body, the human spirit and also humankind. And with that he has been developing a work around the spirituality and the link between humans and also God and in the case of Ahmed Mater, Allah.”
25. Wide of exhibition space for Ahmed Mater retrospective
26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Ahmed Mater, artist from Saudi Arabia
“I like art, I feel art is more close to me, it’s something that can explain what I feel. And medicine I learn and study and graduated as a medical doctor. But when I work in the medicine, I learn that medicine is not only a science, medicine first is a common sense. It’s to meet people, it’s to greet your patient before thinking about medicine. So I learned that medicine, as a science, stands between subjectivity and objectivity – it has a big spiritual part.”
27. Wide of room containing Ahmed Mater’s sculptures
28. Close pan left of Study I by Mater (2022)
29 Mid of Study III by Mater (2022)
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