The new Royal Ontario Museum show devoted to female Islamic artists is divided into themes of space, movement and power
The Sengalese-Italian photographer Maïmouna Guerresi provides another arresting moment with a pair of large photographs,. In each a Black woman is posed on a diving board suspended over a vast vertical drop like an elevator shaft. The women are veiled in long draperies – scarlet in one instance; royal blue in the other – that leave only the face and hands showing and contrast sharply with the grey of their industrial backdrops.
maintain balance or navigate the void. Perhaps they are angels or mystics, but their figures can also be read as dramatic personifications of the superhuman negotiation required by many women to cross barriers imposed by their race and gender. The script is so finely detailed that, from a distance, the circle looks like a piece of weaving and the work, suggesting an ethical meditation, is quietly beautiful., a video animation by the Iranian-American artist Shiva Ahmadi, is almost hallucinogenic as watery
The piece is so engrossingly surreal, the viewer may miss its most pointed reference: It includes a version of the infamous photo of a migrant boy’s body washed up on a Turkish beach.
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