Mon May 4, 2015
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
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at Cantor Arts Center
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CLOSED TUESDAY.
The provocative work in this exhibition challenges perceptions of Middle Eastern identity and its women, supposedly powerless and oppressed behind walls and veils. They are “in fact a force in both society and the arts. They played a major role in the Arab Spring and continue to do so in the flourishing regional art scene--specifically in photography--which is alive and very well indeed,†wrote Vicki Goldberg in the New York Times. “Some Middle Eastern photographers have taken their cameras to the barricades, physical ones and those less obvious, like the barriers erected by stereotypes, which they remain determined to defy.†She Who Tells a Story presents the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian.
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The provocative work in this exhibition challenges perceptions of Middle Eastern identity and its women, supposedly powerless and oppressed behind walls and veils. They are “in fact a force in both society and the arts. They played a major role in the Arab Spring and continue to do so in the flourishing regional art scene--specifically in photography--which is alive and very well indeed,†wrote Vicki Goldberg in the New York Times. “Some Middle Eastern photographers have taken their cameras to the barricades, physical ones and those less obvious, like the barriers erected by stereotypes, which they remain determined to defy.†She Who Tells a Story presents the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian.
CLOSED TUESDAY.
The provocative work in this exhibition challenges perceptions of Middle Eastern identity and its women, supposedly powerless and oppressed behind walls and veils. They are “in fact a force in both society and the arts. They played a major role in the Arab Spring and continue to do so in the flourishing regional art scene--specifically in photography--which is alive and very well indeed,†wrote Vicki Goldberg in the New York Times. “Some Middle Eastern photographers have taken their cameras to the barricades, physical ones and those less obvious, like the barriers erected by stereotypes, which they remain determined to defy.†She Who Tells a Story presents the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian.
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The provocative work in this exhibition challenges perceptions of Middle Eastern identity and its women, supposedly powerless and oppressed behind walls and veils. They are “in fact a force in both society and the arts. They played a major role in the Arab Spring and continue to do so in the flourishing regional art scene--specifically in photography--which is alive and very well indeed,†wrote Vicki Goldberg in the New York Times. “Some Middle Eastern photographers have taken their cameras to the barricades, physical ones and those less obvious, like the barriers erected by stereotypes, which they remain determined to defy.†She Who Tells a Story presents the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian.
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Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94305
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