New Date

Lecture & Reception with Rania Matar for Rania Matar: SHE

Friday, September 29 | 6 – 8 p.m.
Members: $60 | Non-Members: $100

Rania Matar, the featured photographer, will lead the event with a lecture.

Event Lecture Topic:
From the Individual to the Collective: The Photography of Rania Matar
Book Singing: SHE

Born and raised in Lebanon, Rania Matar moved to the United States in 1984. She has dedicated her work to exploring issues of personal and collective identity through photographs of female adolescence and adulthood. Matar works both in the United States and the Middle East in an effort to focus on notions of identity and individuality within the context of the underlying universality of these experiences.

SHE features 50 large-scale color images of young women in their 20s—the ages of Matar’s own daughters—leaving the cocoon of home and transitioning into womanhood. In earlier projects, Matar photographed young women in relation to the controlled environment of their bedrooms. Here, she captures them in the larger arena they find themselves in after leaving home—the global and complicated backdrop that now constitutes their lives in transition. Organized by The Museum Box LLC, Boston, MA.