The Mosaic Rooms presents the first UK solo show of Mona Saudi, one of the most distinguished artists working in the Arab World today, and one its finest sculptors. Poetic Inspirations includes recent sculptures as well as drawings, through which Saudi explores the relationship between sculpture and poetry.

The show contains drawings inspired by the great Syrian poet Adonis, and Song for an Equinox, one of Saint-John Perse’s last poems. Other drawings invoke poems by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, glorifying the love of Mother Earth.

The sculptures are a continuation of the artist’s trend towards pure abstraction. Exploring timeless and universal concepts such as Humanity, the Earth and Cosmos, Saudi’s works create space for contemplation and act as a vehicle for the artist’s ‘endless research in form.’ As Saudi says ‘…in spite of the hundreds of sculptures I have made, I still have the feeling that I am just at the beginning.’

Mona Saudi was born in Amman, Jordan, 1945, and currently lives in Beirut. She studied sculpture at the ENSBA in Paris. Her artwork has featured in solo and collective exhibitions in the Arab world, and also Europe and USA. Saudi has created large-scale public sculptures in Amman, Paris, and Beirut. Her works can be found in private collections worldwide, and in museums in Paris, Amman, Washington D.C and Beirut.