Tag: Lalla A. Essaydi

01 Work, Middle East Artists, Lalla Essaydi’s Les Femmes du Maroc/ The Women of Morocco Revisited #1, with Footnotes #67

Aug 15, 2023

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Zaidan Art Blog

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Sold for 10,080 GBP in October 2022 “Arab women today are facing difficulties and Orientalist attitudes from Arab and Western societies alike…they remain defined by their sexuality, threatening to men but appealing to Western fantasies. My photographs seek to portray Arab women as powerful presences in their own right.” (THE ARTIST – QUOTED IN THE STRAITS TIMES –…