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Highlights from Art Week Riyadh
Dhewadi Hadjab. (Supplied)
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Updated 18 April 2025
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Highlights from Art Week Riyadh
Updated 18 April 2025
Arab News
Ayesha Singh
‘Liminal Gaps’
The Indian artist’s “Liminal Gaps,” according to the gallery Nature Morte, “explores the areas ‘in between,’ or transitional spaces” and “reshapes perspectives on India’s evolving cultural identity.’ The installation acts as a 3D drawing through which the viewer can move. Singh has said her works “aim to counter established narratives.”
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
‘Message with(out) a code’
This work comes from the Lebanese duo’s ongoing series “Uncomformities” (a geological term indicating natural disasters and geological movements). That series began in 2016 when the artists started collecting earth core samples that “revealed the subterranean worlds of cities omnipresent in the personal imaginaries: Athens, Paris, Beirut and Tripoli.
Dhewadi Hadjab
‘UԳپٱ’
This work comes from a series of paintings that the Algerian-born artist created last year, which were presented in Paris in November. At the time, art critic Anael Pigeat wrote: “He shows unreal images of positions impossible to maintain: several times in one single time and several bodies in one single body.”
Bella Hadid brings Orebella to the Middle East with Kuwait launch
Updated 07 November 2025
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DUBAI: American Dutch Palestinian supermodel Bella Hadid this week brought her beauty brand, Orebella, to the Middle East with its launch at Ulta Beauty in Kuwait.
The model and entrepreneur is currently in Kuwait celebrating the debut and meeting fans. On Instagram Stories, she posted a photo with her father, Mohamed Hadid, who joined her for the trip.
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“Look who I found in Kuwait? My little comedian @mohamedhadid. Baba’s birthday week + launching Orebella in the Middle East = best week ever!!!” she wrote.
She also shared a behind-the-scenes shot of herself getting ready, doing her hair and makeup while holding one of the brand’s perfumes, captioning it: “Orebella is finally in Kuwait.”
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Ulta Beauty’s first regional boutique opened at The Avenues in Kuwait City. Locations at Mall of the Emirates and Dubai Mall in the UAE are scheduled to open in December, with set to follow in the first half of 2026.
Fans in the region are anticipating Orebella’s arrival in and the UAE alongside the launch of Ulta Beauty, one of the largest beauty retailers in the US.
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In June, Ulta Beauty awarded Bella Hadid’s fragrance brand, Orebella, its prestigious Conscious Brand of the Year title, recognizing the label’s commitment to clean ingredients, ethical practices and sustainable packaging.
Orebella, which launched in 2024 with a sell-out line of clean fragrance mists, is rooted in Hadid’s love of scent layering, spirituality and beauty rituals.
Hadid wrote on her website at the time: “For me, fragrance has always been at the center of my life — helping me feel in charge of who I am and my surroundings. From my home to nostalgic memories, to my own energy and connection with others, scent has been an outlet for me. It made me feel safe in my own world.”
The alcohol-free scents of Orebella were Hadid’s answer to traditional perfumes.
“Through my healing journey, I found that I was extremely sensitive to the alcohol in traditional perfumes — both physically and mentally — it became something that was more overwhelming than calming to me,” she added. “That is the main reason I wanted to find an alternative, so essential oils became an artistic and experimental process for me.”
