Saudi Automobile

Through references to gender roles and the female experience Sara Abu Abdallahs work explores issues of obscurity and value probing the social and cultural conditions of life in contemporary Saudi Arabia In her multidisciplinary practice she creates associations of the poetic and the absurd Saudi Automobile consists of an installation and a 10minute looped video that shows Sarah Abu Abdallah painting the shell of a wrecked car with light pink paint mainly as a gesture of defiance against the monopolisation of the privilege of driving by the men in her home country at the time She paints the wrecked car like icing a cake as if beautifying the exterior would fix its disfunctionality In this exhibition Abu Abdullahs pink car is placed outside on the Platform of The Flying Saucer