Ghada Amer: Love Has No End
1 2015-11-30T16:31:43-08:00 Natalie Hassell c13a775d80de4967fe62310f87310c01d04aab35 5735 1 Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, the first U.S. survey of the renowned artist's work, features some fifty pieces from every aspect of Amer's career as a painter, ... plain 2015-11-30T16:31:43-08:00 YouTube 2008-02-25T17:18:09.000Z lmuRXbeo6gM BrooklynMuseum Natalie Hassell c13a775d80de4967fe62310f87310c01d04aab35This page is referenced by:
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Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 and moved to France in 1974. Amer received her MFA in painting from Villa Arson EPIAR in Nice, France in 1989. She now lives and works in New York.
Ghada Amer works in many mediums including painting, drawing, installation, photography, and sculpture, such as The Words I love the Most. Amer’s work focuses largely on issues on gender and sexuality and also tackles issues regarding perceptions of Islam. Many of Amer’s pieces, such as Barbie Loves Ken, Ken Loves Barbie, feature embroidery; Amer’s use of embroidery in her installation and painting pieces transforms the traditionally domestic, female craft into high art. Amer’s embroidered painting pieces, like Grey Lisa and The Big Black Bang - RFGA, have been compared to the abstract expressionist pieces of Jackson Pollock, and her embroidery can be seen as a way of reclaiming abstraction.
In this video, Ghada Amer speaks about the works in her 2008 exhibit in the Brooklyn Museum, Love Has No End. The exhibit represented 20 years of work and featured her embroidered painting pieces, garden pieces, RFGA works, photography and installations. In the interview, Amer discusses notions of power in regards to her embroidered painting pieces of “women that [she] redraws from the magazines.” She stresses that her work is not intended to carry a message, teach others about their sexuality, or to empower women. Rather, her work is intended to inform herself; she states, “my drawings are my diary.” Additionally, Amer discusses her use of Arabic writing in her works on display in an English-speaking country and perceptions of Muslims in the west.