Vikram Divecha - Wall extract (Riyadh), 2024, Site Visit

What does it mean to salvage a wall from a building that is slated for demolition? As a way of thinking in public, Divecha is inviting an informal gathering of multiple voices to reflect together on this gesture of salvaging a wall. 

A session in two parts, we will first walk through the historic Al Oud district in Southern Riyadh, visiting the site of the salvaged wall.  Divecha imagines this wall as a starting point for expansive sociocultural mappings of time and place, the wall as a bearer of histories—of tenants, infrastructure, materiality, aesthetics, and culture.

This site visit initiates this potential by bringing together an array of voices, thinkers and city dwellers. The conversation will continue at the Umm Slaim studio whose practice is deeply invested in Riyadh’s urban history and through a series of prompts and questions offered by Divecha explore how this architectural fragment be repurposed into a social object. 

A Bus from Diriyah Biennale Foundation to Al Oud will depart at 4pm.

Alternatively, please meet us at the location : https://maps.app.goo.gl/V6RphPggAY6jhPsX9 

Or at Umm Slaim studio : https://maps.app.goo.gl/qZLFtaJRHwGb9PQZ7 at 6:30pm

Return transportation to Diriyah Biennale Foundation will depart at 8pm.