Richard Serra is an artist from San Francesco, born in 1938, who carried out his latest work called “East-West / West-East”, a project that considers space in a material sense; in fact, at the base of his research there is the conceptual manipulation of huge areas and in this case we find pieces of public art like sculptures, in the middle of Qatar’s desert. The artist explains his work as follows:

“Before, there was no way of discerning where anything was in relation to where you were, because you had no point of reference. What that piece does is give you a point of reference in relationship to a line, and your upstanding relationship to a vertical plane, and infinity”.

Richard explains that there are no routes to get to this precise point of the desert, no map and no sign, there is only one GPS position, N25 or 31.019 ‘E050o51.948’ to help visitors find their way. Just in that point, among the plaster plateaus of Brouq Nature Reserve, there are four monumental steel slabs in a straight line, with a thickness of 10 cm and 16.7 meters in height: these sculptures offer a visual reference point in otherwise vast and dispersive desert scenery.