The Artist Project: Diana Al-Hadid

Artist Diana Al-Hadid reflects on the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale in this episode of The Artist Project.

September 16, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In The Artist Project, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"There's reliance on and denial of the wall."

Diana Al-Hadid reflects on the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Diana Al-Hadid, born in 1981, is a Syrian-American artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings.

A large scuplture made of steel, polymer gypsum, wood, fiberglass and paint

Diana Al-Hadid (American, born Syria, 1981)

Gradiva’s Fourth Wall, 2011

Steel, polymer gypsum, wood, fiberglass and paint; 183 1/2 × 190 3/4 × 132 in. (466.1 × 484.5 × 335.3 cm). Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE. © Diana Al-Hadid