Luis Gonzalez Palma @ AIB

Strauch-Mosse Lecture Series
Visiting guest artist Luiz Gonzalez Palma on October 1, 2009


Comienza entonces a llover (Then it starts to rain), 2004

LALLA ESSAYDI: Le Femme du Maroc

DECORDOVA MUSEUM & SCULPTURE PARK

Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery

September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Lalla Essaydi, Le Femme du Maroc: Reclining Odalisque, 2008

Lalla Essaydi is a New York-based, Moroccan-born photographer, painter, and installation artist. Over the past decade, she has risen to international prominence with her timely and beautiful work that deals with the condition of women in Islamic society, cross-cultural identity, Orientalism, and the history of art. Like her feminist Muslim expatriate contemporaries—Ghada Amer, Ambreen Butt, Emily Jacir, Sherin Neshat, and Shahzia Sikander—Essaydi has developed a powerful and personal artistic voice that calls into question prevailing myths, power hierarchies, and traditions that limit human freedom. (press release)

Gallery Talk

Senior Curator Nick Capasso: Saturday, November 21, 3 pm

Panel Discussion
Women, Culture, and Islam: A Cultural Historian's Perspective on Lalla Essaydi's Photographs: Sunday, October 11, 1 pm
DeCordova welcomes Senior Resident Scholar Elinor Gadon from Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center for an afternoon discussion of Lalla Essaydi's photographs. Framed within the context of anthropology, art, and religion, Gadon brings her unique perspective as a cultural historian to this intriguing exhibition.