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Crossing boundaries and expanding ideas of physical and social space are not new challenges for Essaydi, as her lived experience spans divergent, locations, cultures, and ideologies. Moroccan born and raised, Essaydi became an artist after relocating from Morocco to Saudi Arabia, then France, and ultimately to the United States. This itinerant personal history has afforded her the distance and means to explore the varied dimensions of Muslim women's experiences based on those of her own, and also to challenge the boundaries that shaped her upbringing. She believes her work, with its very intimate portrayal of Moroccan women and the private spaces they inhabit, would not have been possible without distance from her homeland. Her art, which often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female form, addresses the complex reality of Arab female identity from the unique perspective of personal experience. In much of her work, she returns to her Moroccan girlhood, looking back on it as an adult woman caught somewhere between past and present, and as an artist, exploring the language in which to 'speak' from this uncertain space. Her work often appropriate Orientalist ima

Author

EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY, Lalla Essaydi, ACR Edition

Publisher

ACR édition ; Edwynn Houk Gallery

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9782867702099

Subjects

Photography, Arts

Rating

4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14