NASCITA by LAILA MURAYWID

NASCITA by LAILA MURAYWID

Magazzino Gallery of Palazzo Contarini Polignac
Dorsoduro 878, 30123 Venezia

Open from 13th to 22nd of March 2019
from 3pm to 6pm (or by appointment)

In Art history, it’s always a woman’s naked body in question…  women are very often stripped of their humanity and used as objects of desire.
Dolls represent the perfect objectification of women’s body. To play with dolls is to play with contradictory forces, with life and death with desire and fear, with pleasure and anxiety, with doubts and certainties they are our intimate self, our substitute of the exterior world.
They take our hands into a world of dreams, magic, secrets, pleasure, and fear into a vertiginous world where everything is possible with ad emotional intensity that belongs to this contradictory uncertain individual heaven or hell, that belongs to each one of us.

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1956 in Damascus, Laila Muraywid graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University, and continued her higher education in the Ècole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.
Laila Muraywid lives and works in Paris. She focuses on photography and sculpture and uses different ways of expression to defy dominant social norms that limit women’s freedom.
She also uses her skills in designing clothes and jewellery.
Her work has been exhibited in various institutions, including the Institut du Monde Arabe ( 2018-2012-2001-1997) Attasi Foundation Dubai (2017-2018-2019 ) Musée Galliera Paris (2002-2004 ), Fondation ONA Rabat (2012 ), Piece Unique Liban Fondation Hariri (2005), Musée Caudrésian des dentelles et broderie (2009-2010)... If Galerie Paris, Green Art Galerie Dubai, Waterhouse & Dodd London, Kennedy Center Washington DC.