TRIBAL DANCER [60 X 74] - - Limited Edition of 50 Photograph

The digitally enhanced and manipulated photograph, TRIBAL DANCER [60 X 74], is a Tunisian tribal dancer performing at the annual desert festivals. The artist's study of the female faces of tribal cultures around the world, has focused on Africa, because what they wear and how they adorn themselves is much more significant than fashion or entertainment. Every trinket and string, scarf or nose ring defines the status and role these women hold in their cultures. One cultural reality these tribal women share with most Eastern and Northern African regional tribes, is the common practice of wearing excessive and quite heavy jewelry to reflect the status of the woman's independent wealth that is outside of their marriages in their cultures where everything and everyone in a marriage is property of the husband. These women so heavily invested in the status of their accessories and facial adornments are then very dismissive of the burdens of fashion or clothing. Their jewelry depict a financial accumulation stones, gems, metals and items acquired over the years of their married lives. Every bead or trinket has some story to tell. In other SaatchiArt collections the artist's studies the geisha culture, for example, which displays similar cultural practices. The geisha's head gear are similar measures of her status and personal wealth--as gifts for public measure of what extent the geisha's patron is sponsoring her life. Like the jewelry of the Tribal Dancer here, geisha's kimonos belong to her geisha house in the same way everything not on the tribal woman's person is actually the property of a marriage where everything is owned by the husband.

Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:50

Size:74 W x 60 H x 1 D in

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