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If only you would, and I dared to follow. #photographer #lovestory #nature #art #saudi

Bone of an old world, etched in dust and silence deep— the earth remembers. #MiddleEastArt #FineArtPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #ConceptualPhotography #visualpoetry

A lone ember flickers in the sand, red rock sentinels guarding nature's stand— AlUla's essence revealed. #AlUla #ExperienceAlUla #SaudiPhotography #SaudiNature #DesertPhotography

Ancient stone breathes slow— fractures hold forgotten rains, time sleeps in the grain. #AlUla #ExperienceAlUla #SaudiNature #SaudiPhotography #desertscapes

In a breathless dusk, galaxies dissolve to dust— still, the red cloud sings. #AlUla #VisitAlUla #DesertVibes #DesertDreams #NightPhotography #Astrophotography #LandscapePhotography #MilkyWayChasers #StarryNight #TravelPhotography #Wanderlust #EarthFocus #OurPlanetDaily #VisualsOfEarth #NatGeoTravel #CapturedInAlUla #StarsOverSaudi #ExploreMore #InstaTravel #PhotoOfTheDay

Stone arch frames the stars, Ancient earth meets distant fire— Night holds both in peace. #AlUla #VisitAlUla #DesertVibes #DesertDreams #NightPhotography #Astrophotography #LandscapePhotography #MilkyWayChasers #StarryNight #TravelPhotography #Wanderlust #EarthFocus #OurPlanetDaily #VisualsOfEarth #NatGeoTravel #CapturedInAlUla #StarsOverSaudi #ExploreMore #InstaTravel #PhotoOfTheDay #alulaastrophotochallenge

Green and amber dance, Painted across black velvet— Cosmic brushstrokes glow. 2025 #AlUla #VisitAlUla #ExperienceAlUla #SaudiArabia #DesertVibes #DesertDreams #DesertLandscape #RockFormations #NaturalWonders #DesertBeauty #NightPhotography #Astrophotography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #LongExposureShot #MilkyWayChasers #StarryNight #TravelPhotography #AdventurePhotograph

Thank you for everyone who came to see THUNDERSTORM! Grateful for this incredible opportunity and this week where I’ve met the most incredible people in a long time and have seen many I haven’t seen for a while. I couldn’t be prouder of the work and the contribution put into this project. I want to thank everyone for coming and experiencing this room I’ve created. Joy, laughter, tears and anger have made this project become my new favourite one! With sincere gratitude to @omg_franck for their generous support and inspiring collaboratic Special thanks to the individuals for their invaluable contributions to the realization of Thunderstorm-each gesture, insight, and effort made this work possible. @radiox_basel @franck_areal 📸 1,2- @selinaseibel @artbasel

THUNDERSTORM 2025 @mariesutter Installation with light, sound, and living chicory plants In Thunderstorm, French-German artist Marie Sutter reanimates the former Franck-Areal silo in Basel-a space once filled with the warm, bitter scent of roasted chicory root. Today, it holds a different atmosphere: suspended time, charged stillness, and the quiet tension of memory. Above, a single line of light floats-serene, until it is fractured. Sudden, visceral flashes tear through the space, accompanied by a thunderclap that crashes into the body more than the ear. It is loud. It is violent. For a moment, the storm dominates— uncontainable, electric, unrelenting. And then, almost imperceptibly, it recedes. In the aftermath, a soundscape begins to unfold: low, breath-like, cyclical. Chicory flowers flicker onto the walls in soft spectral blue-ephemeral, between bloom and storm. A voice emerges. Time seems to stretch. Below, rows of Cichorium intybus-chicory plants-reach upward, cultivated over months under deep red light. The choice is both biological and symbolic: red stimulates root growth, anchoring resilience below the surface, while evoking warmth, urgency, and emotional gravity. Once processed here into a dark, caffeine-free coffee during wartime scarcity, the chicory root returns-not as commodity, but as witness. Not to be consumed, but to be felt. It stands in the space as a living trace of endurance— a quiet force long overlooked. Resilience often begins in the dark, beneath pressure. And in a world bracing for upheaval, it is the overlooked that often carries us through. A 30-minute composition by Sutter threads together storm, breath, voice, and time-an arc that moves from rupture to reckoning, from noise to presence. Thunderstorm is not just the calm before the storm-it is the storm’s release and the stillness that follows. A meditation on thresholds, on what it means to withstand impact, and on the power of returning-not broken, but changed. Sometimes, it is the forgotten that returns with the loudest force. 🎥 @mariesutter With sincere gratitude to @omg_franck @radiox_basel @franck_areal for their generous support @artbasel