COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0005905
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Work Title (display):
Quatre Generations De Femmes
Work Title (variant):
Four Generations of Women
Image Title:
detail view
Work Dates (display):
1997
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2010-03-05
Work Creator (display):
Zineb Sedira (French, based in London, born 1963)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
How to negotiate different worlds is the overriding question in Zineb Sedira's work, worlds that collide and conflict. It is precisely her Algerian heritage and her experience of living in London and France that gives Zineb's work insight into these different worlds. The work shifts from the political to the emotional; from a sense of history to the present; from East to West and through them both. Her use of Islamic pattern and the veil can be clearly identified as an element drawn from her Algerian parentage yet the work is constantly reminding us that she is working as an artist living in the West. Zineb talks of 'the veiling of the mind' as a significant metaphor in her work and while she also uses the veil literally, it becomes a device to embrace all women... Her use of body parts such as mouths, hands and eyes are directly connected to the Islamic prohibition of representing the body while at the same time reframing the Western feminist theories of objectification. The hands, eyes and mouths, employed in several of Zineb's works, refer to the absent body, but that body is known through the detail the shift of the gaze; the motion of the hand, reveals the condition of the people who inhabit those hands and eyes and the power that confers to the ostensibly absent whole reinforces the presence of those people. Invocation of ritual and heritage give rise to a meshing of present and past as the self seeks to understand itself as independent of, yet still within the background of, one's birth. (http://www.zinebsedira.com/)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 2003
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
perspective
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perspective
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false
Work Subject:
wallpapers
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wallpapers
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false
Work Subject:
differences
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differences
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false
Work Subject:
culture
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culture
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false
Work Subject:
gender (sex role)
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gender (sex role)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Islam
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Islam
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
patterns (design elements)
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patterns (design elements)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
social classes
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social classes
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
ceramic tile
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ceramic tile
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false
Work Worktype:
screen prints
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screen prints
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false
Work Worktype:
ceramics (objects)
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ceramics (objects)
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false
Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
ceramics
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ceramics
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
ceramics
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Glasgow Museum
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Image Source Reproduction refid:
072456
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
UCBAAHVRCSlideAccessionNumber
Image Rights (display):
© Zineb Sedira
Work Rights (display):
© Zineb Sedira
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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