About the work

In the art of Maha Mustafa a tension appears physically between what you might call a "meteorological" and a "geological" perspective. They often confront each other within the same work – as in Landscape Minus 37°C, where the ice appearing on the ribs of a gigantic freezing unit arouses the illusion of a frosty mountain scene. The cold – a meteorological and therefore changing phenomenon – thus creates strata of a geological, that is, remaining nature, which is of course a pretty accurate description of how it actually happens.

© From the catalogue of Sharjah Biennial 8, 2007.