Join Chief Curator Amy Galpin on a tour of the exhibition Lalla Essaydi: Image and Text. Essaydi’s photographs pose questions about the Western perspective on the East, starting with 19th-century Orientalism, an approach that eroticized African and Middle Eastern women and young men. Many of these paintings were rooted in the imagination and fantasies of European male artists. Essaydi’s photographs talk back to these stereotypical narratives. Lalla Essaydi
Lalla Essaydi, Bullets #5, Chromogenic print, edition 7 of 10, 2009, 48 x 60 inches, Gift from the Collection of Steven E. and Phyllis Gross, FIU 2021.13.8, ©Lalla Essaydi, Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York