A small but beautiful exhibition on this modern Middle Eastern artist who deserves to be better known – and well done to the Tate for this exhibition. I am biased as if she had not been an artist, she would have wished to have been an architect – and it shows in her sculpture.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/saloua-raouda-choucair
(photographs copyright Tate Gallery/Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
[...] would have been happier at Tate Modern if we had carried through our tentative decision to see the Saloua Raouda Chouchair exhibit. Her work is very beautiful. But the exhibit required tickets, and we worried that we [...]