Crash And Erasure

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Manal Al Dowayan’s FIELD MEETING presentation focused on her ongoing research-based art projects exploring inclusion, memory, policy, and archives. She spoke about her recent work, Crash, which examines the deaths of Saudi Arabian female teachers over the past 25 years due to car and bus accidents on roads. She asks, “what does it mean to actively erase a group of people from collective memory?” Manal also reviewed the importance of experimental spaces, allowing for such exploratory projects to manifest, and the debates that unfolded once her works were shown in both exhibition, and workshop formats.

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