Inner Constellations: Mamouna Guerresi Photographs

About this book

Shes been referred to as the "Sufi Frida Kahlo." Mamouna Guerresi is a photographer whose work sometimes incorporates sculpture video and installation art. Her unique style combines Afro-Asian themes and symbolism with the traditions of Western classical iconography. This unique mlange incorporates cultural and religious influences and fusion of different artistic languages. Her meticulously composed and highly impactful photographs include veiled figures that symbolise the body as a sacred building as the "temple of the soul " a modernist style reminiscent of some traditional Madonnas of classical art. The costumes are made of fabrics that she has collected in travels in Africa or Asia. The book is composed of ten chapters ranging from "Light Signs: Frontiers Between the Known and Unknown" to "The Giants: Dark Faces of the Great Spirit Guides" through photographs that are totally distinctive in terms of creating environments that are fantastic and ethereal and unlike the work of any other photographer working today.