Negotiating Hybridity in the Work of Lalla Essaydi: An Exploration of Gaze
The photographic work of contemporary Moroccan artist, Lalla Essaydi, embodies a new artistic hybridity that reflects her nomadic, globalized background. With this work, the artist employs visual symbolism and uses multiple forms of artistic media as a means to analyze her multicultural background....
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2013
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/137 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1144&context=art_design_theses |
| Summary: | The photographic work of contemporary Moroccan artist, Lalla Essaydi, embodies a new artistic hybridity that reflects her nomadic, globalized background. With this work, the artist employs visual symbolism and uses multiple forms of artistic media as a means to analyze her multicultural background. Throughout her series, which spans 2004-present, Essaydi uses both literal and metaphorical representations of space and self as a means to examine the multifacetedness of her national identity and the many gazes that define that identity. She uses artistic production as a means of mediating the collective experiences of her identity in order to negotiate and construct a revised image of self. |
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