Emily Jacir. From Paris to Riyadh (Drawings for My Mother)

Lot 137
02.10.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 137 | Emily Jacir. From Paris to Riyadh (Drawings for My Mother)
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JACIR, EMILY
1970 Bethlehem

Title: From Paris to Riyadh (Drawings for My Mother).
Subtitle: 130-part.
Date: 1982.
Technique: 89 sheets: India ink on Glassine paper resp. 41 sheets: Glassine paper.
Measurement: Each: 30 x 23cm.
Notation: Each: stamped with numbering. One of the sheets dated lower centre: Avril 1982.


With enclosed nails for installation.

Provenance:
- Kasper König Collection, Berlin (directly from the artist)

- The series is a reminiscence of the artist's childhood
- The black spots on the parchment paper depict silhouettes of female body parts from various issues of the French magazine 'Vogue'
- Jacir's mother had made the exposed body parts of the women unrecognisable in order to take the magazine with her from France to Saudi Arabia .
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