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Artist
Ghada Amer
b. 1963, Cairo, Egypt · Egyptian-American · Based in New York, USA; Paris, France
- Villa Arson, Nice
- Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris
- Embroidered Painting
- Ceramic Sculpture
- Bronze
- Garden Design
Ghada Amer combines painting and embroidery to examine sexuality, gender, desire and the politics of representation. Repeated stitched female figures appropriate images from pornography while tangles of thread partially obscure them.
Painting; embroidery; sculpture
Gallery Representation
Major Works
- 2005The Reign of Terror
- 1999Big Drips
- 2001Encyclopedia of Pleasure
- 2005Knotty but Nice
- 1995Barbie Loves Ken, Ken Loves Barbie
- 1998Private Rooms
- 2012The Words I Love the Most
- 2000sLove Has No End
- 2000sBlue Bra Girls
- 2000Women’s Qualities
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Interviews & Writing
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