If you happen to be in Riyadh this week, you might have noticed something quietly powerful unfolding across the city—murals tucked between alleyways, sculptures crawling up sunlit walls, and a crumbling house transformed into an immersive installation. It’s all part of “Continuum,” a citywide exhibition by French-Tunisian calligraffiti artist eL Seed, inviting you to see identity as a living, shifting process.
The open-air exhibition, on view across Diriyah for Art Week Riyadh 2025—which got underway on April 6 and will run until April 13— poses the question: What does it mean to belong everywhere and nowhere at once? Especially for Third Culture individuals, identity isn’t fixed. It’s layered, evolving, sometimes contradictory. In “Continuum,” those contradictions take shape through painted walls that nod to resilience and decay, and sculptural prosthetics that gesture toward transformation.
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The name “Continuum” says it all. By definition, it’s something that keeps going, changing gradually over time without ever really breaking. That in-between space—between cultures, between past and future, between home and somewhere else—is exactly where this exhibition lives. It’s a word that perfectly mirrors the Third Culture experience: always evolving, never complete.
And this wasn’t a quick project. According to the artist, “Continuum” has been six years in the making. It’s a deeply personal body of work, shaped by the eL Seed’s own experience navigating identity across different geographies and timelines.
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For those of us raised between cultures, this hits. The project doesn’t just reflect the artist’s story, but mirrors our own—whether you’re Saudi and studied abroad, or Lebanese growing up in Dubai, or Tunisian-Italian figuring it out somewhere in the middle.
The final stop? A deconstructed house layered with prosthetic elements, tucked away in JAX District. It’s the emotional landing point of the trail—a space that crumbles and reconstructs itself at once, offering no clear answers, only feeling. The map is in the artist’s Instagram bio, or you can hop into a Lucid Motors car that’ll take you from Samhamiya to JAX.
Call it a scavenger hunt for the self. Call it a love letter to in-betweenness. Either way, it’s not one to miss.
