East-West/West-East by Richard Serra
Four towering steel plates set a kilometer apart across the desert, calibrated level despite shifting terrain.
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This guide to Richard Serra's East-West/West-East on Qatar's Zekreet peninsula opens with a puzzle: four steel plates that look perfectly level across a kilometer of desert, though two stand two meters shorter than the others. It traces the twelve years Serra spent visiting and turning down Qatar before Sheikha al-Mayassa persuaded him to build here, and his habit of walking a site for days rather than working from a studio model. The plates were shipped from Germany and raised in 2014, cor-ten steel spread unevenly across roughly a kilometer of the Zekreet peninsula.
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