by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Essaydi’s Les Femmes du Marco #1 exemplifies the historical play and interrogative approach she takes towards Orientalism. This photography strongly resembles Eugéne Delacroix’s Algerian Women in Their Apartment from 1834 with a similar arrangement of female figures...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Classifying Lalla Essaydi’s studio practice as photography overlooks the complex array of production and practice that goes into the pieces such as, performance, textual, participatory, installation, site specific, and relational. She constructs a variety of tableaus...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Benjamin, Roger. Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930. Berkeley: University of California, 2003. Print. Nochlin, Linda. Representing Women. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Print. Lin, Ming. “Writing Women: Interview...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Architecture plays a large part in the works of Orientalist paintings, as well as in Lalla Essaydi’s photographs. The series Harem, and Harem Revisited present women in lavish architectural spaces, with mosaic tiles covering the walls in vibrant colors. Their dress...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
It is important to appreciate at what point Essaydi realized that not all American or Western viewers understood the full context and meaning of Orientalist paintings. In her recent interview for this exhibition, the artist describes an experience she had in graduate...
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