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The Harem Within. Fear of the Difference
Since the late 1980's Fatema Mernissi and the German-American artist Ruth V. Ward have cooperated in several major visual/verbal projects. Feminism and the literary and artistic exploration of a woman's status and identity was their early connection and springboard that led to the exhibitions which have been shown extensively in Europe and the United States. |
As a child in a Harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing. |
The tale of the woman who had a feather dress changed my life. I discovered that I could fly if I raise my head, fixed upon the sky, and concentrate: "You have to start with some serious problem to develop wings." Aunt Habiba was pretty clear about the conditions. |
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The Harem principle is to use space and architecture to negate the difference: Women in. Men out. Each one keep to his space. Chaos (fitna) sets in when both meet and share the same space. Order is the barrier. |
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