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Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection
Desert Jewels presents a superb collection of jewelry and late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of North African landscapes, urban scenes, and portraits.
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Perspectives: Women, Art, and Islam

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Perspectives: Women, Art, and Islam presents five female artists whose major connection is their personal relationship with Islam. Spanning three continents and the mediums of video, photography, and installation, Perspectives features work by Fariba Alam (Bangladesh), Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Algeria), Mahwish Chisty (Pakistan), Safaa Erruas (Morocco), and Nsenga Knight (Brooklyn) who explore the connections, or lack thereof, between the practice of Islam and the various Muslim communities in their lives. Alam infuses ceramic tiles with personal archival photography of family in Bangladesh; Bouabdellah carves out space for gold high-heels in a series of prayer rugs, and takes self-portraits with couscous pots; Knight interviews Muslim women from her Brooklyn community for a video installation; Christy projects Kufic script into a pool of water; and Erruas uses multiple sections of soft white textiles to set out the gallery's walls as spaces of perceived femininity. Each work challenges preconceptions, defies categorization, and raises timely questions about gender and the Islamic faith.

 

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