ART: A GIRL AND HER ROOM BY RANIA MATAR
Organisation: The Mosaic Rooms
Time: 01 July 2011 11:00am - 23 July 2011 6:00pm
Place: The Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5
The Mosaic Rooms Presents:
A Girl and her room
By Rania Matar
The Arab-American photographer brings her award-winning series of images, A Girl and her Room, to the UK for the first time. This series features intimate photographic portraits of teenage girls in their most personal space, their bedroom.
This project began by Matar photographing her teenage daughter with her friends. She soon realised the girls were very conscious of each other in the way they behaved and represented themselves when together. From there emerged the idea of photographing each girl alone in her personal space, where she would give a more honest representation of her personality.
Born and raised in Lebanon, Rania Matar moved to America in 1984 where she studied art and architecture at Cornell University. She later studied photography at the New England School of Photography. Her work has won several awards, has been featured in numerous publications, and exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, and her images are in permanent and private collections. Her second book A Girl and Her Room is due to be published in the spring of 2012 by Umbrage Editions.
1 - 23 July 2011 | Mon-Fri: 11:00-18:00 | Sat: 11:00-16:00
The Mosaic Rooms
226 Cromwell Road
London
SW5 0SW
FREE EXHIBITION