- Title
- Ayb (Shame), from the series Boundaries
- Date Made
- 2013
- Medium
- Inkjet print (inkjet print)
- Dimensions
- Sight: 19 1/4 × 27 1/4 in. (48.9 × 69.22 cm)
Mat: 27 1/2 × 39 1/2 in. (69.85 × 100.33 cm)
Image: 19 3/4 × 27 3/4 in. (50.17 × 70.49 cm)
Frame: 21 × 29 × 2 in. (53.34 × 73.66 × 5.08 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2013.184.1
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
Situated on the Persian Gulf and sharing borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is one of the richest
countries in the world. This pair of photographs (see also M.2013.184.2), comes from the series
Boundaries, which depicts life in Kuwait for the affluent and educated twentysomething generation caught
between sophisticated technology and unbridled consumerism, and religious tradition and social
conservatism. Working with the photographer Djinane Alsuwayeh, Abdullah Al Saab carefully staged and
constructed each image in the series. Some are intentionally tongue-in-cheek, as in Technology Killed
Reality, and others express his own personal frustrations.
Trained in interior design, Abdullah Al Saab began creating clothes in 2008. He has recently turned to
conceptual design and photography, as reflected in the series Boundaries, where he incorporates his own
line of clothes and explores his interest in merging art and fashion.
