Shaqayeq Arabi’s assemblages are often composed of simple materials. Fundamentally abstract, they nevertheless evoke a range of associations. Her work speaks to both the built, urban environment and the natural world, combining the textures of found objects with the rawness of materials.

Her practice examines the different forms and textures of materials and, through them, the balance between the expressively abstract and the suggestively pictorial. Her works propose a metamorphosis from the base, synthetic nature of their materials into the ethereal nature of a composition, whether installation or sculpture.

These totem-like sculptures embody her interest in exploring how the sum of an object’s parts can comprise what Ave has referred to as “a larger visionary whole.”