Aljohara Jeje: Portraits of Legends Inspired by Pearls

It seems that Dutch artist and photographer Aljohara Jeje was inspired by her own name (Aljohara, meaning the gem) when creating her legendary portraits, adopting the pearl-jewel as a symbol of the words and distinct femininity that reverberated across the emirate of Sharjah, the capital of culture. In the city, she presented triptychs of women performing graceful movements that sought to convey pronounced words and sounds in utter contradiction to the condition of serene contemplation of observing a photographic image, a feat through which she proved to be highly successful in monitoring and capturing the existing tension between silence and speech.