Salih Albarrak is a designer based in Riyadh, he has a profound interest in the overlap between storytelling, alchemy, and design. This journey has allowed him to construct a fabric of works and techniques, effectively capturing the essence of speculative social and political structures that reside on the fringes of reality.
Salih Albarrak is an architect/artist based in Riyadh, he has a profound interest in the overlap between storytelling, alchemy, and design. This journey has allowed him to construct a fabric of works and techniques, effectively capturing the essence of speculative social and political structures that reside on the fringes of reality. Birth of Green (2023)
video + sound
Green limes, olives, riyals, algae blooms, spoiled milk, the flag, serpents, veins, greens, oxidation, disgust, locusts, heaven, and all things that yellow under the sun. These are the things they told us prospered at the brink of spring.
Green...
The scent of a tuberose, plucked only to be crushed in a fist. The sound of ringing steel; perhaps the snipping of gauze with a rusty pair of scissors.
Growth and renewal, safety, illness, jealousy, and envy.
A fading green, like those palm tree crowns that hover above our heads like nests of gods. Green, like poison in cartoons, unripe dates, or the green light Gatsby speaks of. Green like walking barefoot on freshly cut grass.
Like that emerald necklace my mother used to wear.
Green... a random set of letters held together by a single strand of hair.
Green...
I can almost feel the earth taking a deep breath.