Live Auction 1239Modern & Contemporary Art
LALLA ESSAYDI (Moroccan, B. 1956)
Lot 118

LALLA ESSAYDI (Moroccan, B. 1956)

Bullets Revisited #23

Closed20 October 2015

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LALLA ESSAYDI (Moroccan, B. 1956)
Bullets Revisited #23
signed 'Lalla Essaydi' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic print mounted on aluminium
77 x 88¼in. (195.5 x 224cm.)
Executed in 2013, this work is number five from an edition of five

Specialist note

'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/).