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    • PHOTO ESSAY | Don't Ask Me My 'Real' Name | 2012
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Zahra Jewanjee

Visual Artist
  • WORK
    • Painting | 2019 - 2025
    • Sculpture | 2018 - 2021
    • Micro Colonies | 2017 - 2020
    • Fracture | 2017
    • Murmuration of Starlings | 2015
    • The Promised Land | 2014
    • PHOTO ESSAY | Don't Ask Me My 'Real' Name | 2012
    • You Have Almost Made 'Me' Look Human | 2016
    • Binary Lives | 2008
    • Dancing Girls | 2008
    • Streets | 2006 -2009
    • SOUND
  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • PRESS

 

Claustrophobia (Detail)   Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink  40 x 38 cm  2015

Claustrophobia (Detail) Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink 40 x 38 cm 2015

The work explores cultural and social overtones projected onto storefront mannequins, reflecting the nature of the environment they embody while existing between reality and illusion. Photographs in this assemblage are taken in various markets across the UAE, particularly in Bur Dubai, Global Village, and Abu Dhabi Mall.

Claustrophobia   Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink  40 x 38 cm  2015

Claustrophobia Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink 40 x 38 cm 2015

Claustrophobia (Detail)   Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink  40 x 38 cm  2015

Claustrophobia (Detail) Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink 40 x 38 cm 2015

Claustrophobia (Detail)   Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink  40 x 38 cm  2015

Claustrophobia (Detail) Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink 40 x 38 cm 2015

Claustrophobia (Detail)   Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink  40 x 38 cm  2015

Claustrophobia (Detail) Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink 40 x 38 cm 2015

Claustrophobia (Detail)   Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink  40 x 38 cm  2015

Claustrophobia (Detail) Polymer acrylic, acetate, ink 40 x 38 cm 2015

 The book is a travelogue of mannequins in ceaseless transformations, embodying their existence in various sets of social and cultural surroundings.

The book is a travelogue of mannequins in ceaseless transformations, embodying their existence in various sets of social and cultural surroundings.

Global Village, 2011

Global Village, 2011