Index Code:

ART-STA-FAR

Orgin:

Kuwait/Puerto Rico

Field Notes:

Installations combine industrial forms textiles and vernacular fragments so that civic histories appear as assembled volumes

Defining Moment:

The urban fountain and water projects where public infrastructure is restaged as a sculptural framework for contested resources

Alia Farid

(

1985–

)

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Farid built a world where sculpture and architecture map political identity — forms drawn from Gulf and Caribbean histories.

Her works reveal geopolitics as built environment.

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Alia Farid’s work, this approach appears where material histories and site conditions determine form rather than composition.

Position

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Alia Farid’s work, this approach appears where material histories and site conditions determine form rather than composition.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Space

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Conceptual Art

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Social Modernism

Modern form addresses collective and social needs.

Alia Farid

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

In Dialogue

Alia Farid

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue