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Lena Obaid is a Saudi visual artist and writer. Her multidisciplinary art practice focuses on our relationship with the urban, natural and digital landscapes. Recent works explore the applications of cartographic practices, geography, home, culture and memory. Most recently, her work was featured in ‘After the Beep’ (Alserkal Avenue, 2021). Her lyric essay ‘The Singsong of the City’ received a 2018 Abu Dhabi Through Your Eyes Award.

Abdullah Al Saadi is an Emirati multidisciplinary artist. An engineer by background, he obtained his MSc in Computer Engineering from Khalifa University in 2019. Drawn to the technical subtleties of photography, he began his practice in astrophotography, and later moved on to focus on street and travel photography. Since then, his artistic practice has expanded to include ceramics, embroidery, and gardening. In 2021, Al Saadi began to investigate the use of mushrooms as a sustainable food source, as well as a potential solution to the waste crisis. Experimenting with the feasibility of growing mushrooms in limited spaces, his current mushroom farm takes place in a closet. Almansoori's work has been exhibited at the Emirates Photography Society (2019), and he was a winner of the Abu Dhabi Through Your Eyes (ADTYE) competition in 2017.