Dubai-based artist Lara Assouad has been short-listed for the Jameel Prize, an international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition.
Assouad is nominated for the £25,000 award for her modular Arabic letters.
Assouad's display explores her work with modular Arabic typography, which she has been working on since 2009. She has always had a knack for "stripping back" Arabic letters in an attempt to reach the underlying geometric structure. She does this by researching calligraphic styles from old manuscripts and abstracts their letters while retaining the basic geometric shape.
The winner of the prize will be announced Wednesday in Istanbul. Assouad is among the 11 short-listed nominees for the fourth edition of the award.
All of the competing artworks will be exhibited at the Pera Museum and will remain on display until August.