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Unfolding Posture
Heba Farid
EgyptGALLERYCONVERSATION
Unfolding Posture for me shows the freedom I have in my life for intellectual and artistic practice. I owe this essentially to my Occidental education and experience.

Obviously, the "woman debate" has been going on in Egypt for the last century, but I find that, in general, women are still too insecure to be able to make visible their struggles, especially through the visual arts. They fear backlash, and they are afraid to challenge the status quo religiously and politically. On a historical note, I have begun the archeology of the female history of my family. I am especially concerned with the five generations of women over the last one hundred years I perceive as ultra-modern in their struggles when compared to middle-class Egyptian women today. One in particular, my great-grandmother, was a performing artist with an incredible story, eventually suppressed and erased by familial/social values. Part of my work here is the formal documentation of that history and its dissemination as evidence of the critical role of women in the development of society and the performing arts in the early twentieth century in Egypt.
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Elijah Boydston (United States)
Not only do the photographs themselves pose question to cultural norms, but being underwater action/pose shots, they seem to represent a great struggle, as movement underwater can feel heavy and restricted. Fantastic work! :)
Elijah Boydston (United States)
Not only do the photographs themselves pose question to cultural norms, but being underwater action/pose shots, they seem to represent a great struggle, as movement underwater can feel heavy and restricted. Fantastic work! :)
scott prater
It show ow the women sometimes is not noticable and tryng to be heard and seen for what great things that can do in this world.
scott prater
It show ow the women sometimes is not noticable and tryng to be heard and seen for what great things that can do in this world.
scott prater
It show ow the women sometimes is not noticable and tryng to be heard and seen for what great things that can do in this world.
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