Issues About Identity in Meriem Bennani's Image of Fardaous Funjab

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Identity in Contemporary Art
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In this particular instance, Meriem Bennani’s use of comic and controversial images to communicate or address issues to do with gender, sexuality, and culture comes out as striking. She uses images to address the plight of Muslim women in a multicultural society.
In particular, is her image of Fardaous Funjab. This image shows a woman in contemporary American society wearing a white body covering and sitting next to a swimming pool. In the Muslim culture, women are not supposed to expose their body parts in public. The religion requires them to be fully covered with a hijab all the time they step out into the crowd. Fadaous Funjab seems to be defiant towards this culture since the woman donning this particular outfit exposes some of her body parts. The artist ...