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“That piqued my curiosity and made me think about my identity as an Arab woman, so in a way, I reencountered my own culture through Orientalist paintings.”

— Lalla Essaydi

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“Not simply because she is veiled or turns away – but because she is still in progress.”

“A lot of people still think that's the way we live, but as an Arab woman, I don't recognise myself in those paintings,”

"In my art, I wish to present myself through multiple lenses -- as artist, as Moroccan, as traditionalist, as Liberal, as Muslim. In short, I invite viewers to resist stereotypes."

“I wish for my work to be as vividly present and yet as elusive as 'woman' herself,”

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