Bonhams: Lalla Essaydi (Morocco, born 1956) Untitled.
Biography and art, auction, artworks, interview, statement, website: Lalla Essaydi. The traditions of Islam exist within spatial boundaries. The presence of men defines public space, the streets, the meeting places. Women are confined to private spaces, the architecture of the homes.
Moroccan-born, New York-based photographer Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956) explores issues surrounding the role of women in Arab culture and their representation in the western European artistic tradition. Her large-scale photographs are based on nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings but work to subvert those stereotyped and sexualized representations.
Lalla Essaydi's large-scale photographs revolve around the harem, the odalisque and the veil—recurring themes that have dominated the European imagination of the Arab world. Combining calligraphy, henna and 19 th -century Orientalist painting traditions along with her personal experiences, Essaydi seeks to capture the complex and multi.
Profile: Lalla Essaydi October 4, 2016 Administrator HAVING GROWN UP in Morocco, lived in Saudi Arabia, which was then followed by studies in France and the US, Lalla Essaydi finds herself in a unique position to create work about women in the Arab world.
Lalla Essaydi's photographs deal with a rebellion against the limited domain of the female within Islamic traditions. As noted in Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World (Aperture, 2005), according to Islamic tradition, the street is the domain of men, and women are condemned to live indoors.
Artist Lalla Essaydi to be honored Chicago — DARKROOM is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago's (MoCP) annual benefit auction.
Essaydi, Lalla is a contemporary artist considered well established, who was born in Morocco, like other celebrated artists such as Sofia Ait Ammi, Jacob El Hanani, Fatima Mazmouz, Hassan Hajjaj, and Mous Lamrabat. Essaydi, Lalla was born in 1956. Essaydi, Lalla's Gallery representation.