When you enter the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale , the first thing you’re struck by is the scale of the project: tens of thousands of clay bricks slotted together to replicate the forms in traditional mosaics, spread across the floor with walkways between them. If you’re thinking that this cannot possibly be the work of one person, you’d be correct. Although Dana Awartani , a Jeddah- and New York–based artist of mixed Palestinian, Saudi, Jordanian, and Syrian descent, is the artist credited with the pavilion, she is the first to foreground the fact that she had numerous collaborators in the skilled craftsmen who labored alongside her in creating the project—all of whom are credited in a wall text. Related Articles Awartani herself is a skilled craftsperson. Her art training involved both a typical graduate program—at the prestigious Central St.…