First Light: a catalogue of Rashid Al Khalifa’s Bahraini sculptures and installations—bridging traditional architecture, landscape light, and contemporary aluminium works.
First Light presents Rashid Al Khalifa’s artistic evolution from 1980s landscape paintings to atmospheric abstractions, sculptural wall works and minimalist aluminium pieces. Drawing on Bahrain’s unique light, colours and built heritage, the catalogue explores themes of memory, transformation, heritage vs modernity, and nature vs industry. Illustrated and contextualised for collectors, curators and scholars, this digital compressed edition offers essays, installation views and provenance details that map the artist’s ongoing dialogue with place and material.