collection - Sharjah Art Foundation

In Framing the View, empty French colonial houses and dilapidated ruins appear to emerge out of the cliffs where they once stood overlooking the sea.

Artwork Details

Artist Zineb Sedira
Title Framing the View
Date 2006
Medium C-print
Dimensions 76.2 X 50.8 cm

Overview

In Framing the View, empty French colonial houses and dilapidated ruins appear to emerge out of the cliffs where they once stood overlooking the sea. Although ravaged by time and by the sea that has gradually eaten them away, the constructions have lost none of their elegance.

Sedira, Zineb

people

In video, photography, sculpture and installation, Zineb Sedira explores notions of gender, language, national identity and modernity.