Aseel AlYaqoub on her Ithra Art Prize-winning ‘Flora Incognita’
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DUBAI: For years, Kuwaiti artist Aseel AlYaqoub worked without a gallery, a grant, or any certainty that her research-heavy work was reaching people. Winning the seventh Ithra Art Prize this month, she tells Arab News, gave her validation she did not realize she had been seeking. AlYaqoub won for “Flora Incognita,” an installation of invented hybrid desert plants escaping the colonial-era archives
