Salima Naji

Femme allaitant un enfant.  La mère, assise sur un tabouret porte son bébé dans les bras et lui donne le sein. Elle est coiffée d'une perruque surmontée d'un cône d'onguent et d'une fleur de lotus. Devant elle, se tient un serviteur qui présente des offrandes, sans doute pour marquer la naissance de l'enfant. Musée du Louvre. Exposition L’art du contour, Le dessin dans l’Égypte ancienne (19 Avril au 22 Juillet 2013)

Lalla Essaydi

Lalla A. Essaydi grew up in Morocco and now lives in USA where she received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/TUFTS University in May 2003. Her art, which often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body, 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 paintings often appropriate Orientalist imagery from the Western painting tradition, thereby inviting viewers to reconsider the Orientalist mythology.  She has worked in numerous media, including painting, video, film, installation, and analog photography.  

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