In the courtyard of Jeddah’s historic Qasr Khuzam, where Saudi Arabia’s first oil contract was signed, was Muhannad Shono’s simple ramp engineered from sand and soil. Titled The span and the divide, 2021, the installation graphed a slope from the ground to the compound wall, its geometric form slowly deteriorating over the course of the show. Inside the palace, several other works also indexed the passage of time. Hugo Aveta’s video Ante el tiempo (In the Face of Time), 2009, reverses footage of sand falling through a warehouse ceiling, as if in an hourglass. Darren Almond’s Perfect Time, 2012,