Silence of Thought #2
Artist
Lalla Essaydi
born Morocco 1956, active in United States since 1996
Date2003; printed 2008
MediumChromogenic print mounted between Plexiglas and cintra
Dimensionsoverall: 40 1/2 x 52 1/4 in. (102.9 x 132.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Art Trust Fund Endowment
Object number2008.4
On View
Not on view[1] Printed for the NCMA exhibition “Far from Home,” by Color Services, Boston.
Published ReferencesKinsey Katchka, entry for Silence of Thought #2, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 590, illus. (color) 591.
Kinsey Katchka, “A Delicate Balance” in Lalla Essaydi: Crossing Boundaries, Bridging Cultures (Paris: ACR Édition in conjunction with Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2015), 88–89, illus. (color) 89.
CJ Suitt, "On Lalla Essaydi's Silence of Thought #2" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 178.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Far from Home," February 17-July 13, 2008.
Washington, DC, National Museum of African Art, "Lalla Essaydi: Revisions," May 9, 2012-February 24, 2013.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–July 17, 2023. Object Rights Statement
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