Feda Eid, Plantcestors, 2025
36 x 24 inches | 91.44 x 60.96 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 10
From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا,” on view until tomorrow!
Join us tomorrow, Sunday, October 26 at 2pm for a final closing reception and celebration featuring an artist talk and dance performance with Feda Eid and Jassi Murad.
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There is just a little over a week to catch “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا!”
Please join us on Sunday, October 26 at 2pm for a closing reception and special event featuring an artist talk as well as a dance performance by Feda Eid and Jassi Murad. All are welcome to attend but please RSVP us at [email protected] or send us a dm here. The gallery will be open this weekend, including on Sunday from noon to 4pm.
Images:
1 & 2.) Tancréde R. Dumas, Arab Servant, Beirut, 1889 (from the collection of Mohammed B. Alwan, courtesy of The Estate of Mahammed B. Alwan)
8 x 5 1/2 inches | 20.32 x 13.97 cm.
Albumen print
3.) Feda Eid, Coffee-stained, 2019
24 x 17 inches | 60.96 x 43.18 cm
Archival pigment print
NFS
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“I am a product of both my mother’s homeland, the fertile crescent, a land of olives and pomegranates, and American culture, like cabbage patch dolls. The overgrowth of cabbage in this patch in Lebanon reminded me of the quinnessential Cabbage Patch Kid doll, my own version of course. My hands over my heart, a pledge of allegiance to nourishing and loving myself.”
Image:
Feda Eid, Cabbage Patch Kid, 2019
41 x 28 inches | 104.14 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 10
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From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا.” Now on view through Sunday, October 26.
#fedaeid #swana #lebaneseamericanartist #lebanesediaspora #contemporaryphotography #portraiture #selfportraiture #levantineculture #bostonartgallery #bostonartreview #bostonphotographygallery #abakusprojects
Charles Lallemand, Jewish Girl of Damascus in Full Dress, 1865
8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches | 20.95 x 15.87 cm.
Albumen print
(from the collection of Mohammed B. Alwan, courtesy of The Estate of Mohammed B. Alwan)
From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا.” On view through Sunday, October 26.
#charleslallemand #fedaeid #damascus #syria #orientalism #orientalistphotography #thelevant #levantineclothing #albumen #albumenprint #19thcenturyphotography #bostonartgallery #bostonphotographygallery #abakusprojects
Félix Bonfils, Syrian Muslim Women in Beirut in Public Dress, c. 1890
9 3/4 x 8 inches | 24.76 x 20.32 cm.
Color photochrom
(from the collection of Mohammed B. Alwan, courtesy of The Estate of Mohammed B. Alwan)
From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا.” On view through Sunday, October 26.
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“The first image I created for this series, ‘Artificial Sweetener’ features a fabric rose shoved in my mouth. The rose, a symbol of heritage and heirlooms, is also the official flower of the US. During the time period of the “Muslim Ban” I found myself feeling that my identity was being spoken for, like so many Muslims in America. As a product of my heritage, ethnicity, faith, upbringing, and environment, I never wanted to be restricted or defined based on any one aspect of my identity. I am an intersectional human with something to say. I speak for myself through my art.”
Image:
Feda Eid, Artificial Sweetener, 2017
55 x 40 inches | 139.7 x 101.6 cm.
Archival pigment print on canvas
Edition of 10
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From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا.” Now on view through Sunday, October 26.
#fedaeid #swana #lebaneseamericanartist #lebanesediaspora #contemporaryphotography #portraiture #selfportraiture #levantineculture #bostonartgallery #bostonartreview #bostonphotographygallery #abakusprojects
Big thanks to @bostonartreview , who’ve included our Feda Eid exhibition in their list of New England exhibitions to catch this fall.
In her writeup BAR editor Jameson Johnson writes, “Coming of age in the US post-9/11, through the 2017 Muslim Ban, and now as a vocal advocate for Palestinian solidarity, Eid places her body or the bodies of other marginalized peoples in the center of the frame in bold resistance. Here, for the first time, Made in USA is shown alongside selections from the Mohammed B. Alwan collection, a forty-year archive of 4,500 photographs from across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Levant. The juxtaposition exposes photography’s entanglement in colonial gazes while underscoring its potential for reclamation, amplifying Eid’s diasporic lens on memory, inheritance, and belonging.”
Head to our stories for a link to the full article☝️
Images:
1.) Feda Eid, Vessel, 2019
52 x 37 inches | 132.08 x 93.98 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 10
2.) Luigi Fiorillo, Bedouin Girl Going to the Source, c. 1880 (from the collection of Mohammed B. Alwan, courtesy of The Estate of Mahammed B. Alwan)
11 x 8 1/4 inches | 27.94 x 20.95 cm.
Albumen print
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“Inspired by ‘The Two Fridas,’ illustrator Yosra Emamizadeh and I tell the story of our shared experiences as Muslim SWANA women grappling with self-love and friendship. While I staged, photographed, styled us, Yosra illustrated a layered pomegranate sky encapsulating us as part of a larger cosmic shared narrative.”
“Frida explores the duality within herself during her life experiences and portrays an image of self nurture, where she comforts, guards, or fortifies herself.” — Hayden Herrera
From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا,” on view through Sunday, September 28.
Image:
Feda Eid & Yosra Emamizadeh, The Universe: Two SWANA Women, 2020
30 x 41 inches | 76.2 x 104.14 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 10
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“As a first generation immigrant I often think about the lands that I occupy and the ways in which I benefit from the deeply violent foundations of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and enslavement through which this country was founded. Colonial borders that impacted the communities I come from led to a diaspora of South West Asian and North African (SWANA) refugees and immigrants. Corn, an “American” staple, provided sustenance to early colonizers, yet it too is a product of migration from the maize plant brought 7,000 years ago from South America, whose lands and indigenous communities are also impacted by colonial borders.
The scarf in this image is a keffiyeh in the Levant, worn by farmers and village folk to protect their heads from the hot sun and equally worn during customary celebrations. It became a symbol of resistance during the British occupation of Palestine and after the Israeli occupation and 1948 Nakba (also known as The Palestinian Catastrophe) as farmers wrapped their heads/faces to conceal their identities to resist oppressors. It continues to be a symbol of pride and resistance for Levantine communities.”
Image:
Feda Eid, Diaspora, 2019
26 x 37 inches | 66.04 x 93.98 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 10
This is the second photograph that is offered as a special edition print for @cactusmutualaid , a Boston-based fundraiser helping locally connected families in Gaza:
15 x 20 inches | 38.1 x 50.8 cm.
Archival pigment print
Open edition
$300
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From our current exhibition, Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا, on view through Sunday, September 28.
#fedaeid #lebaneseamericanartist #lebanesediaspora #bedouin #thelevant #contemporaryphotography #keffiyeh #firstgeneration #levantineculture #bostonartgallery #bostonphotographygallery #abakusprojects
“When I had created this outfit I kept having visions of this woman outside the window. The mashlah (cloak) I am wearing I made from an old pink tablecloth, gold trim and braided string I had upcycled from an old bag. The black and metallic floral abaya (dress) underneath was my mom’s from Lebanon. The metallic diamond shapes symbolized these portals to the past, present and future. I had a bag of antique silver-plated utensils I had thrifted and this old basket and I started to thread them onto it with some clear string in my stash. The utensil face veil is reminiscent of the veils worn by Levantine Bedouin women that were handmade with metal coins, generational hand me downs and other collected items. The veil serves as a symbol of identity, armor and protection, the utensils tools of consumption and creation. The spoon held out, acts as an invitation and reminder, what will we continue to consume and make here?”
Image:
Feda Eid, Picnic, 2022
41 x 31 inches | 104.14 x 78.74 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 10
This photograph is one of two special edition prints being offered for @cactusmutualaid , a Boston-based fundraiser helping locally connected families in Gaza:
20 x 15 inches | 50.8 x 38.1 cm.
Archival pigment print
Open edition
$300
[email protected] or dm to inquire
#fedaeid #lebaneseamericanartist #lebanesediaspora #bedouin #thelevant #contemporaryphotography #portraiture #selfportraiture #levantineculture #sowafirstfriday #firstfriday #bostonartgallery #bostonphotographygallery #abakusprojects
“Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا” is up and looking just as beautiful as we had envisioned 🥀 Join us for the opening during tonight’s First Friday events in the South End from 6 to 8:30pm!
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