As a Lebanese-born American artist and mother, Matar has dedicated her photographic practice to exploring both sides of her cross-cultural experience, and personal narrative. Her work addresses issues of personal and collective identity, through photographs of girls and women in the United States where she lives and in the Middle East where she is from.
Throughout her work, she seeks to focus on our essence, our physicality, and on the commonalities that make us human, to emphasize underlying similarities rather than apparent differences. Her photographs reveal the beauty in our shared humanity – in the universal as well as personal experience of women encountering the challenges of growing up regardless of background.
Presented by Rania Matar, art photographer and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
Minty, Kayla, Leyah, and Layla, Cambridge, Massachusetts by Rania Matar, Inkjet print, 2020. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. © Rania Matar.
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