Rania Matar: Becoming. Girls, Women and Coming of Age

East Wing presents this solo exhibition of Rania Matar‘s work “Becoming: Girls, Women and Coming of Age”.  

Rania Matar has openly observed and questioned this cycle of becoming throughout the development of her artistic practise.   Focusing mostly on young women, she studies the ways they communicate their notions of adulthood: from documenting adolescents in their bedrooms and considering how they curate these private spaces; to portraying the unspoken bonds between mothers and daughters; to her keen observations of young girls and how, in all these stage of life these women fiercely  express their individuality as they continue to grow and change.

The main focus of this exhibition centres around Rania‘s most recent body of work, “L’Enfant Femme” in which her subjects are young women and girls teetering on the fine line between childhood and adolescence.  She observes how these girls mimic certain body language and postures which, for them, exhibit their conceptions about adulthood.  Additionally, the exhibition also presents selections from her past works, “A Girl and her Room”, Invisible Children” and “Unspoken Conversations”.  Each body of work explores a different chapter of maturity and illustrates Matar‘s interest in the universality of how women of all ages navigate different transitional moments in life.