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| Left image: "Genitilla al-Wilada" (2007) / Right image: "Mother-Minaret" (2007) |
Saturday, 29 June 2013
‘The Mystic Black Body’, Photographs by Maïmouna Guerresi in France
Posted on 02:07 by the great khali
ISLAMIC ARTS MAGAZINE
FRANCE---The Stimultania Gallery in Strasbourg (France) recently exhibited a collection of large scale photographs by Italian multimedia artist Maïmouna Guerresi. A veteran of the Italian art scene, Guerresi was known in the 1980s for the conceptual feminist work that she exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and Documenta. An encounter with the Senegalese Murid community in 1991, however, profoundly transformed her art and life: she married a member, had a daughter and was immersed in the mystical tradition of West African Islam. As the “The Mystic Black Body” exhibit attests, the experience continues to nourish and inform her art to this day.[link]
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