Author
Al-Arashi, Yumna, 1988-
author,
photographer
Mohsen, Engy
translator
Edition Patrick Frey
issuing body
Publication Date
2024
Publication Place
Zurich -
Patrick Frey
Subject
Edition Patrick Frey (Series)
Type
Book
Language
ar
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
24 cm
Library
Wellcome Collection museum and library
Record ID
tzvwjanh
Date
2024
Notes
"A stirring love letter to the artist's great-grandmother, Aisha, and a visual and poetic homage to an elderly generation of women across the Middle East and Northern Africa - the very matriarchies Al-Arashi descends from. This is the first artists' book of Yemeni-Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi (born 1988). Inspired by Al-Arashi's great-grandmother, Aisha, the book is a homage to the lineage of women from the many-layered landscapes of the MENA region. Searching for an understanding of the tattoos that graced her great-grandmother's body, Al-Arashi embraces the complexities of a symbolic matriarchal tradition. Unable to visit one of her places of origin, the war-stricken Yemen, Al-Arashi traveled through Northern Africa, where she met and photographed a diverse group of women belonging more or less to the same generation. By refusing the violence of selection and definition surrounding women's practices, Al-Arashi publishes every single photograph from her journey in this 392 page monograph, moving the work into an ethereal cinematic celebration. Aisha includes Al-Arashi's prose and poetry in which she reflects on memories of her great-grandmother. In her genre-stretching texts, Al-Arashi also speaks on colonial archives, intergenerational storytelling and the complexities of transnational female Arab identity in patriarchal, capitalist and imperialist societies." -- Printed Matter website. | Spine title.
880-04 "Al-ṣuwar wa-al-kitābah Yumná al-ʻArshī"--colophon.
"Photographs and writing by Yumna Al-Arashi"--colophon. | Parallel texts in English and Arabic.
Hakkında ayrıca bilinen
880-03 ʻĀʼishah
Baskı
First edition.
