Conflicted Identities, the latest exhibit by Moroccan-born Lalla Essaydi through June 29 at Jackson Fine Art, is a complex and provocative work that reflects on the artist’s uneasiness in reconciling her multicultural identity in the context of Islamic culture.
The exhibit of six large-scale, color photographic prints combines two ongoing series that, taken together, span more than two decades of work: Bullets Revisited, a continuation of her previous series, Bullets, which denounced the violence women were subjected to following the repression of the Arab Spring — and Conflicted Identities, her latest series for which Essaydi uses beer bottle caps as a metaphor to expose the rise of alcohol consumption in Morocco.
