Artist Biography
Saudi Artist, Malak Kaki is an interdisciplinary artist who earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute. She focuses in ceramic, metal casting and writing to translate the world around her. Through her work, she expresses topics of grief and growth; occupying the spaces where both loss and love exist.
Artist Statement
My art wether an archive of words or a building of clay; is an attempt at decluttering my thoughts. It is a process of reincarnation. My thoughts taking shape. It is metaphysics in action. My ideas taking force; coming alive; a rebirth.
As my art goes through this transcendence.
It is also an attempt at consoling my grief. It is an expression of losses. Losses taking shape. The unseen solidifying; the invisible crystalizing. My dreams coming into life.
It is a nurturing. It is maternal instincts coming into existence. It is an attempt at healing.
It is my womanhood. It is my life taking shape. My morals and beliefs falling into place
Settling
Into who I am yet to become.
It is me now. And there also exists a- me - in the making.
My art is my family. Our coming together. It is me being an older sister. It is again me being a healer. In community. For myself and for others.
It is an attempt at grounding myself. It is eclectic and electric. It is an attempt to slow down and be magnetized. It is a radical lust for life as my friend once poetically phrased it. It is an attraction to the unseen. It is a polarization of affirmations. That yes my thoughts come to life. Yes they have that ability. Yes I am a maker.
It is an attempt to have a crush for the mundane. It is an eternal appreciation for my childhood. It is an attempt to go back to- the seduction of learning something new. It is a kiss with wonder. It is a question in the making…