Shattah, Jeddah

Shatta

2004

Jeddah Atelier

The Shattah group is the most important in terms of understanding the emerging Saudi contemporary arts scene. Shattah refers to something which is broken up or disembodied and was the first conceptual and cutting edge exhibition in Saudi that broke the boundaries of contemporary art in the Kingdom.Ahmed Mater was one of the founders of the group and exhibited early X-Ray paintings and an early project called Chewing