Bullets Revisited #23

Details

LALLA ESSAYDI (Moroccan, B. 1956)
Bullets Revisited #23
signed 'Lalla Essaydi' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic print mounted on aluminium
77 x 88¼in. (195.5 x 224cm.)
Executed in 2013, this work is number five from an edition of five

Literature

D. Nasser-Khadivi & A-C. Rafif (eds.), Lalla Essaydi Crossing Boundaries Bridging Cultures, Paris 2015 (illustrated in colour, p. 327).

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Lot Essay

'The physical harem is the dangerous frontier where sacred law and pleasure collide. This is not the harem of the Western Orientalist imagination, an anxiety-free place of euphoria and the absence of constraints, where the word "harem" has lost its dangerous edge. My harem is based on the historical reality; rather than the artistic images of the West - an idyllic, lustful dream of sexually available women, uninhibited by the moral constraints of 19th Century Europe.' (The artist, quoted on https://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2010-11-04_lalla-essaydi/).

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