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Lalla Essaydi
Les Femmes du Maroc: Reclining Odalisque
2008

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Les Femmes du Maroc: Reclining Odalisque, 2008 Chromogenic prints mounted to aluminum with a UV protective laminate 60 x 144 inches 152.4 x 365.8 cm Edition of 10 Lalla Essaydi was born and raised in Morocco and educated in the West before moving to Saudi Arabia for several years. The United States-based artist explores issues of gender, cross-cultural identity and the prevalent myths of Orientalism. Working across multiple disciplines—including painting, video, installation and photography—Essaydi challenges the social norms and hierarchies that shaped her life as a young girl in Morocco. This exhibition comprises more than 20 large-scale color photographs, including several of Essaydi’s iconic multi-panel works. The images present Moroccan women in a range of staged narratives that explore contemporary power structures, while also confronting conventional representations of Arab women, formed in part by Western perceptions of Islamic culture. In her photographs, Essaydi explores spaces both real and symbolic. Raised in a traditional Muslim household, which included designated areas just for women, Essaydi is intimately familiar with how Arab women’s personal histories are interlinked with segregated spaces. Traditionally in Islamic culture, men move about freely in public spaces, while women are often confined to private realms, away from public view. Over time, physical borders come to define social hierarchies and for women, stepping outside these boundaries, literal or otherwise, can lead to confinement in an actual space. Through her creative practices, Essaydi has come to understand how these longstanding cultural mores have informed her views as an artist and as a woman living between two worlds. In her Les Femmes du Maroc series, Essaydi appropriates Orientalist imagery from historical Western paintings, placing models in classical odalisque positions, similar to Ingres’ Grande Odalisque, which depicts a reclining nude harem slave in an imagined Orient. Essaydi reinterprets such classical artworks by compositionally distilling the concept. She eliminates the lavish color and opulent architectural surroundings and instead covers the models from head to toe with Arabic calligraphy—another recurring theme in her work. By focusing exclusively on women, who are arranged in ubiquitously fetishistic positions, Essaydi skillfully critiques established views of Arab women in Western art, and by extension, in contemporary culture. Lalla Essaydi was born in Morocco in 1956 and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Massachusetts. She has exhibited her work across the globe, including at the Asian Civilisations Museum and the National Museum of Singapore; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The San Diego Museum of Art, California; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of African Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Her work is in numerous permanent collections, including the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore; Musée du Louvre, Paris; the British Museum, London; the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha. She divides her time between New York, Boston and Marrakesh.

Creator:
Lalla Essaydi (1956, Moroccan)
Creation Year:
2008
Dimensions:
Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 144 in (365.76 cm)
Medium:
Photographic Paper
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2000-2009
Condition:
Gallery Location:
NEW YORK, NY
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Seller: LE0131stDibs: LU68433369783

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