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Photographer Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc Print E-mail
Editor: Brenda Bonneville   
Tuesday, 19 October 2010

At the Bates College Museum of Art Through December 18, 2010.

(Lewiston, ME) Lalla Essaydi is a New York-based, Moroccan-born photographer, painter, and installation artist. Over the past decade, she has risen to international prominence with her timely and beautiful work that deals with the condition of women in Islamic society, cross-cultural identity, Orientalism, and the history of art. Like her feminist Muslim expatriate contemporaries—Ghada Amer, Ambreen Butt, Emily Jacir, Sherin Neshat, and Shahzia Sikander—Essaydi has developed a powerful and personal artistic voice that calls into question prevailing myths, power hierarchies, and traditions that limit human freedom.

(Image: Photograph by Lalla Essaydi)

This solo exhibition at the Museum of Art presents Essaydi's most recent body of work, Les Femmes du Maroc. Like her earlier photographic series, Converging Territories (2005), the images in Les Femmes du Maroc present Moroccan women in staged narratives. These women inhabit a place that is literally and entirely circumscribed by text, written directly on their bodies, apparel, and their surroundings by the artist herself.

For more information or to see additional images of Lalla's work, please visit the Bates College Museum of Art website.



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