Lalla Essaydi: Challenging Perceptions of the Arab Woman.
Jackson Fine Art is pleased to announce Harem Revisited, a solo exhibition of photographs by Lalla Essaydi on view from May 9th through July 3rd, 2014.This will be Essaydi's third exhibition at Jackson Fine Art. “The physical harem is the dangerous frontier where sacred law and pleasure collide.Lalla Essaydi. Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956, Morocco) explores issues surrounding the role of women in Arab culture and their representation in the western European artistic tradition. Her photographs are based on nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings, but work to subvert those stereotyped and sexualized representations. Aside from their provocative subject matter, Essaydi’s photographs are.Moroccan-born, New York-based photographer Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956) explores issues surrounding the role of women in Arab culture and their representation in the western European artistic tradition. Her large-scale photographs are based on nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings but work to subvert those stereotyped and sexualized representations.
Connecting contemporary Arab woman with the Orientalist imagery of nineteenth century Romanticism, Lalla Essaydi’s photography is created from the unique perspective of the personal experience.Her representations of the female body, combined with the Islamic calligraphy applied by hand with henna, focus the complex issue of Arab female identity.In most of her work, Essaydi returns to her.We speak to Lalla Essaydi about her first solo gallery show in Dubai The Moroccan artist uses carefully staged portraits of Arab women to investigate the complexities of her contemporary sense of.
According to Islamic tradition, men dominate the public sphere and women are expected to remain indoors at most times. In photographer Lalla Essaydi’s native Morocco this confinement has been further used as a punishment for those who transgress the rules of gender conduct.
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