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AWAD EL SHIMY: ODALISQUES AND WARRIORS

SOAS, LONDON
13 MAY–4 JUNE 1994

This selection from a series of forty different etchings on zinc plates started in 1983 and are devoted to the “singing slaves” (gariya), odalisques and warriors, which to the artist's mind are the most significant icons of the Orient.

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