OBS-ART-177

Alia Farid — Water Works

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Surface as Echo

OBS-ART-177

Material Presence

Atlas Index:

Origin:

kuwait, puerto-rico

Era:

2010s-present

Themes / Lineage:

contemporary material practice, residue, post-minimalism

Field Notes:

Surface accumulates residue. Echo replaces image. Material holds memory indirectly.

Quiet Modernism appears here as continuity sustained through subtle repetition.

Surface as Echo

Alia Farid — Water Works

The surface repeats a prior condition.

Difference remains minimal.

Resonance persists.

Structural Concepts

Material Presence

Material asserts physical presence through density, texture, and load.

The substance from which a work is built.

The limit where one form, field, or space meets another.

The tonal field produced by light, material, and proportion.

Artist Overview

culture as spatial weave

In Dialogue

Relation as structure

gesture as system