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Naila Art Gallery


Located in Saudi Arabias capital Riyadh, Naila Art Gallery is an independent and innovative gallery
showcasing work by both emerging and established artists. The Gallery itself is unique in the Saudi art
community as an infinitely reconfigurable space able to host international exhibitions, local shows,
and art symposiums alike.

While the Gallery is still young, it has been host to a number of local and international exhibitions,
including non-profit exhibitions promoting art and culture such as 25 years of Arab Creativity from
Paris Institute du Monde Arabe, and Out of Arabia: Landscape throughout the Arabian Peninsula in
collaboration with the British Council.

Solo exhibitions at the gallery have included Zaza 2013 by Muhammad Zaza; Splendors of
Calligraphy & Illuminations from the Islamic Arts by Abdulrahman Al Soliman; Imad Tahers solo
exhibition, Muse; France-based Syrian artist Ahmad Mouallas solo exhibition, Ripples: Deriving
Secrets.

In 2014, The Gallery has exhibited Dutch-artist Caroline Havers's collection, Sands and Serendipity,
which explored the artists new Saudi setting; a collection of work by Egyptian abstract artist Farouk
Hosny; as well as Circles of Memory, Syrian artist Toufic Hamidis first solo exhibition.

Beyond exhibitions and international collaborations, Naila Art Gallery represents a number of
emerging and established local and international artists, including Muhammad Zaza, Toufic Al-Hamidi,
Fahad Al-Niemah, Abdullah Al Marzook, Ghada Al-Hassan, and Ayman Zedani.

Naila Art Gallery also has an established education program in place, which includes art symposiums,
workshops and seminars for both artists and the public. Naila Art Gallery is also committed to helping
foster artistic talent with an established fund. Future collaborations in the upcoming year include both
international and local creative partners.

All of Naila Art Gallerys activities and programs work towards a single mission celebrating
contemporary art.

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Ayman Zedani

Ayman Zedani was born in Saudi Arabia in 1984 and spent his early years moving around Saudi Arabia due to his fathers profession.
With a lifelong interest in experimenting with chemicals, the eventual goal of opening a lab led him to pursue an undergraduate
degree in biomedical science at Griffith University in Australia. While in Australia, he followed his interest in art and undertook
several courses leading him to more seriously pursue his interest.

Zedani works are marked by an advanced expressionist quality, and move away from realism in their application of shapes and
forms drastically altered from their usual configurations. He has spent time experimenting with a range of mediums, including
photography, digital art, illustration, and painting. Zedanis scientific background is evident in his continued experimentation with
technique and photo processing, as well as his affinity for prisms and geometric forms.

Zedanis experimental work calls up, and explores, the idea of the role of self, in all its formation. The infinite repetition found in the
prisms Zedani frequently draws on in this exploration brings into question the idea of an objective, singular self, and puts forward
experimentation and creation as avenues for navigating the constantly evolving self.


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Artist Statement



All of my work revolves around my interest in the ephemeral nature of the universe. What
starts off as mere observation soon becomes debased in hegemony of perspective, leaving
a new synthesis of experience both for the viewer and myself.
With influences as diverse as the Higgs-field phenomena to Andy Warhols repetitive trend,
new narratives are manufactured from both technical knowledge and metaphysical
interpretation. Linear interplay of structure as well as a manipulation of various medias are
utilized to coherently explore ideas of my attempt to understand the concept of an outer
world and its link with ones internal world; or rather, interpretation.
The appearance of the external world is only importance in how we interpret it on a daily
basis. Our belief in the external world is crafted from our understanding of both orderly and
random experiences, and through logic harmony with nature is possible. My interest by the
theoretical limits of the universe is manipulated with my understanding and handling of
perspective.
We experience everything through the lens of our connection, directly or indirectly. At the
end of the day, we are never isolated beings, and our understanding of the world is derived
through our links, asymmetrical or not, we avoid annihilation and linearity by these
connections fighting against the meaningless of existence.
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Takhassosi Street
Bldg 247, #250, South Arab National Bank
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tel: +966118805352
info@gallerynaila.com
www.gallerynaila.com