21st December 2011

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eturosanna: fyeahwomenartists: Lalla EssaydiBullets #5, 2009 “Lalla Essaydi incorporates layers of Islamic calligraphy applied by hand with henna, in tandem with poses directly inspired by 19th Century Orientalist painting. By appropriating this imagery, the works reflect the changing and “complex female identities” found in Morocco and throughout the Muslim world.  During the 19th Century, French painters such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme indulged their audiences with the trend for painting images of the middle-eastern harem and the eroticisized Arab female body. Utilizing her perspective as an Arab woman living in a Western world, Lalla Essaydi, attempts to reexamine Arab female identity. Set within an unoccupied house, owned by the artist’s family, a place to which Essaydi was sent as a form of punishment when she disobeyed, Les Femmes du Maroc represents an exploration of the imaginary boundaries and “permissible space” codified by traditional Muslim society. Essaydi writes, “the presence of men defines public space, the streets, the meeting places. Women are confined to private spaces, the architecture of the homes.”” (via Edwynn Houk Gallery - Lalla Essaydi) Sherry Bruckberrough read a paper about this artist at the Feminist Art History conference this past weekend. Very fascinating.

eturosanna:

fyeahwomenartists:

Lalla Essaydi
Bullets #5, 2009

“Lalla Essaydi incorporates layers of Islamic calligraphy applied by hand with henna, in tandem with poses directly inspired by 19th Century Orientalist painting. By appropriating this imagery, the works reflect the changing and “complex female identities” found in Morocco and throughout the Muslim world. 


During the 19th Century, French painters such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme indulged their audiences with the trend for painting images of the middle-eastern harem and the eroticisized Arab female body. Utilizing her perspective as an Arab woman living in a Western world, Lalla Essaydi, attempts to reexamine Arab female identity. 

Set within an unoccupied house, owned by the artist’s family, a place to which Essaydi was sent as a form of punishment when she disobeyed, Les Femmes du Maroc represents an exploration of the imaginary boundaries and “permissible space” codified by traditional Muslim society. Essaydi writes, “the presence of men defines public space, the streets, the meeting places. Women are confined to private spaces, the architecture of the homes.””

(via Edwynn Houk Gallery - Lalla Essaydi)

Sherry Bruckberrough read a paper about this artist at the Feminist Art History conference this past weekend. Very fascinating.

Source: houkgallery.com

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