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Lalla Essaydi (Morrocan, b. 1956)

Converging Territories #21

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Lalla Essaydi (Morrocan, b. 1956)
Converging Territories #21
signed, dated, titled and numbered (on label on the reverse)
chromogenic print mounted on aluminium, four panel polyptych
each 40¾ x 33in. (103.5 x 84.5cm.); overall 40¾ x 132in.(103.5 x 338cm.)
Executed in 2003, this work is number eight from an edition of fifteen
Exhibited
New York, Edwynn Hook Gallery
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Lot Essay

Essaydi explores the complexities of Arab female identity, covering her subjects, their clothing and surroundings with auto-biographical, yet incomplete text. Essaydi states: 'I am going beyond simple critique to a more active, even subversive, engagement with cultural patterns to convey my own experience as an Arab woman caught somewhere between past and present, as well as between "East" and "West."'

The masterpiece of Lalla Essaydi's series Converging Territories, resembling an evolutionary chart, this four-panel polypytch explores four stages of development for the woman.

The painter, videographer and photographer Lalla Essaydi has emerged as one of the most significant contemporary Arab women artists. Raised in Morocco, she married into the Saudi royal family and obtained her MFA from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Now divorced, she divides her time between New York City and Morocco.

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