Les Femmes du Maroc: Harem no. 11

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Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956)
Les Femmes du Maroc: Harem no. 11
signed 'Lalla Essaydi' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic print mounted on aluminium, in three parts
each: 40 1/8 x 32 5/8in. (102 x 83cm.)
overall: 40 1/8 x 98 3/8in. (102 x 249cm.)
Conceived in 2009 and executed in 2010, this work is number one from an edition of fifteen

Provenance

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.

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Lot Essay

'The physical harem is the dangerous frontier where sacred law and pleasure collide. This is not the harem of the Western Orientalist imagination, an anxiety-free place of euphoria and the absence of constraints, where the word "harem" has lost its dangerous edge. My harem is based on the historical reality; rather than the artistic images of the West - an idyllic, lustful dream of sexually available women, uninhibited by the moral constraints of 19th Century Europe.' (The artist, quoted on https://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2010-11-04_lalla-essaydi/).

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