Known for his monumental steel sculptures, the American artist Richard Serra never stops questioning the formal possibilities of this material. This is the case with the alignment of steel plates in “West-East/East-West” installed since 2014 in the desert peninsula of Zekreet in Qatar. These monoliths evoke the film “2001, A Space Odyssey” as well as the standing stones of Stonehenge (England) and provoke a new perception of the place. They are minimal and abstract reinterpretations of Giacometti’s statue “The Walking Man” and allow the daytime or night-time visitor to experience the physical force of the world by wandering into the heart of the work. Born in 1939, the sculptor has become a reference in minimalist and environmental art. In 2011, he erected a work entitled “Seven” in the park of the MIA (Museum of Islamic Arts) in Doha. The 79 feet (24 metres) high installation is made up of seven huge steel plates. A tribute to the spiritual significance of the number 7 in Islamic culture.