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Le Thorel Pascale ed. After her debut in photography — black and white portraits veiled in muslin — she chose to tackle the heated debate over the question of headscarves in public schools, prevalent in France since , and has turned her reflection towards the representations of the body of Muslim women, caught between Western fantasies, on the one hand, and contemporary Islamic tradition, on the other.

In her performance fashion show, she combines song, music and dance with tragicomic designs of sculptural dresses inspired by burkas, niqabs, hijabs, and safseris. She criticizes the body and clothing standards imposed on Muslim women. In her July show at the Centre Pompidou, M. Khattari depicted the oppression endured by Afghan women.

Born in in Erfoud, Majida Khattari studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca, Morocco, then at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure.

Her series Les Mille et Une Souffrances du tchadiri shows the Afghan veil preventing models from stand up straight. Broadly speaking, M. An unmarried embroiderer living with her mother argues for the respect of traditional values, while a young Frenchwoman of Moroccan descent hesitates between a fantasised Oriental wedding and the pleasures of a harem of boys.

On a third screen, an Oriental-style homosexual wedding is celebrated. More recently, M. The artist modernises orientalist characters, by reconstituting settings inspired by famous compositions, endowing them with an uncertain status that is part fantasy, part photographic reality. The viewers are then propelled into this emotional duality as they look at the female body: first as admirers of the voluptuousness of the representation, then as voyeurs participating in its objectification.

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