Episode Synopsis "Episode 3: Artist Lita Albuquerque brings NAJMA to the Arabian desert"

Neville Wakefield and Aya Alireza talk with Lita Albuquerque, the California based artist who brought her fictive character NAJMA (Arabic for “star”), to AlUla, a birthplace of astronomy. The blue, veiled lady, subtitled She Placed 1000 Suns on the Transparent Overlays of Space, sits atop a petroglyph, surveying the valley and blue pools placed to correspond with the stars above. After all, “NAJMA” is “a 21st century female astronaut” with “a mission to reteach the inhabitants of the earth about their relationship to the stars.” Albuquerque also explains why she could not miss being in Saudi Arabia at this time.

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More episodes of the podcast Desert X AlUla Podcast

• Episode 8: Curators and artists reflect on the impact of Desert X AlUla
• Episode 7: Artist Manal AlDowayan sends a serious message, playfully
• Episode 6: Artist Sherin Guirguis makes a crown from an anklet
• Episode 5: Artists Superflex and El Seed send love and engagement to Saudi Arabia
• Episode 4: Artists Muhannad Shono and Zahra AlGhamdi draw lines in the sand
• Episode 3: Artist Lita Albuquerque brings NAJMA to the Arabian desert
• Episode 2: With artists Nadim Karam, Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim and Gisela Colon
• Episode 1: Desert X AlUla co-curators introduce the exhibition