PCAI is pleased to announce the participation of PCAI collection artists Latent Community and Sophia Al-Maria in the first edition of Rubaiya Qatar, a new quadrennial in Doha.
This inaugural quadrennial is focused on global ecology, water, and maritime heritage and comprises three exhibitions and public installations, as well as a display of historic artifacts from the tenth-century Cirebon shipwreck, which reveal ancient cultural and commercial exchange routes.
Sophia Al -Maria participates in the main exhibition, titled Unruly Water, takes place from November 21, 2026 to April 30, 2027, and is curated by Tom Eccles, Ruba Katrib, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, and Mark Rappolt.
The other two exhibitions, Our Common Currents and Seething Sea, will open on November 22 and also run until April 30, 2027.
Latent Community is pleased to present a new work at Rubaiya Qatar 2026, at the exhibition commissioned by Qatar Museums (QM). The work will be presented as part of Our Common Currents, curated by Lina Patmali. This will be the first presentation of Latent Community’s work in Qatar.
Desert Sea is a large-scale two-channel video installation that explores the interrelationship between water and desert memory within Qatar’s diverse eco-cultural landscape, drawing on the traces of pre-oil histories, cultural practices, and forms of knowledge shaped by and around water. Creatively connecting the country’s deserts with coastal areas, the artists present water as a force that can shape, maintain and transform reality.
More information here.
Image credits: Latent Community, Desert Sea (2026). Still. Images courtesy of Latent Community.
Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4,6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17
