Rania Matar: SHE
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The photographs of Boston-based Palestinian Lebanese artist Rania Matar tell the stories of young women through portraits taken throughout Lebanon, France, Egypt, and the United States.
Photographed through car windows, in abandoned buildings, snow-strewn fields, or floating in the Mediterranean Sea, the women collaborate with Matar, sharing a sense of creative agency. These large-scale color photographs portray individuality intimately tied to the histories and connections of place.
Press Images
A selection of the more than fifty photographs by Rania Matar featured in the exhibition
On the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), the photographs taken in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, Southern Lebanon, and in and around the Palestinian refugee camps showcase the beauty of resilience found among the traces of destruction.