id: 338408 accession number: 2019.47 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.47 updated: 2023-01-26 16:30:12.552000 Unspoken Conversations: Soraya and Tala, Yarze, Lebanon, 2014. Rania Matar (Lebanese, 1964-). Inkjet print; image: 71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Friends of Photography 2019.47 © Rania Matar title: Soraya and Tala, Yarze, Lebanon title in original language: series: Unspoken Conversations series in original language: creation date: 2014 creation date earliest: 2014 creation date latest: 2014 current location: creditline: Gift of Friends of Photography copyright: © Rania Matar --- culture: Lebanon technique: inkjet print department: Photography collection: PH - Misc. 21st Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rania Matar (Lebanese, 1964-) - artist --- measurements: Image: 71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: ed. 6/7 support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Rania Matar (the artist) date: footnotes: citations: Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 3, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Matar, whose own mother died when she was three, began photographing mothers with daughters when her own elder daughter left for college. digital description: The series Unspoken Conversations explores the complexity and universality of the mother-daughter relationship. “Like the rest of my work,” says the artist, in this series “I am exploring through my photography what I find myself and my daughters going through. Observing mothers and daughters together seemed to me to offer versions of the same person separated by the years.” wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Matar, Rania, and Joy Jeehye Kim. In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar. 2017. page number: url: --- IMAGES