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Lalla Essaydi
6 quotes
“In my art, I wish to present myself through multiple lenses -- as artist, as Moroccan, as traditionalist, as Liberal, as Muslim. In short, I invite viewers to resist stereotypes.”
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“When I started working, I started photographing women in amazing houses, but when I brought my work to the West, all people were seeing were the beautiful spaces – they weren't seeing the women and that was disappointing,”
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“I wish for my work to be as vividly present and yet as elusive as 'woman' herself,”
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“Not simply because she is veiled or turns away – but because she is still in progress.”
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“A lot of people still think that's the way we live, but as an Arab woman, I don't recognise myself in those paintings,”
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“That piqued my curiosity and made me think about my identity as an Arab woman, so in a way, I reencountered my own culture through Orientalist paintings.”
Lalla Essaydi (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source