Zineb SediraDREAMS HAVE NO TITLES (My Parents' Tapestry) - English, 2022
With ‘Dreams Have No Titles (My Parents’ Tapestry)’, Zineb Sedira reinterprets a 1960s tapestry from her childhood. Blurring the eroticised female characters, she frees them from the orientalist scenario that confined them.
“One oriental tapestry troubled my childhood… An awakening into feminism. Weaving the fabric into words, films, stories, textures. I became a teenager trapped into these orientalist scripts. Fantasies of women in roles, and places, fixed in time.”
— Extract from the film Dreams Have No Title by Zineb Sedira
Working between the mediums of photography, film, installation and performance, Sedira is most known for her explorations of the human effects of geography. During her earlier work, this was often grounded in her own family’s experiences, but in recent years Sedira has turned to various kinds of archives, interrogating the historical narratives that they hold.
