Arts & Leisure
Stories of young women told through portraits in new exhibit, ‘Rania Matar: SHE’

RANIA MATAR (LEBANESE, born 1964), Alae (in the Mirror), Beirut, Lebanon, 2020, photograph, 28 3/4 x 36 inches. © Rania Matar. Courtesy of the artist.
February 13, 2025
The photographs of Lebanese Palestinian American artist, based in Boston, Rania Matar tell the stories of young women through portraits taken throughout Lebanon, France, Egypt, and the United States. Photographed through car windows, in abandoned buildings, snow-strewn fields, or floating in the Mediterranean Sea, the women collaborate with Matar, sharing a sense of creative agency.
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