Converging Territories, #6, 2003

Details

LALLA ESSAYDI (b.1956)
Converging Territories, #6, 2003
chromogenic print
signed in ink on label with typed credit, title, date and number '2/15' on reverse of aluminium flush-mount
36 x 29in. (91.5 x 73.7cm.)

Provenance

With Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
acquired by present owner.

Literature

For other images in the series for this and the following lots, see: Essaydi, Converging Territories, powerHouse Books, 2005.

Special notice

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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."'

Morrocan-born Essaydi received her MFA from Tufts University, Boston. She now lives and works in New York City.

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