“One oriental tapestry troubled my childhood… An awakening into feminism. Weaving the fabric into words, films, stories, textures. I became a teenager trapped into these orientalist scripts. Fantasies of women in roles, and places, fixed in time.”

— Extract from the film Dreams Have No Title by Zineb Sedira

With Dreams Have No Titles (My parents’ Tapestry), Zineb Sedira reinterprets and diverts a 1960s tapestry that marked her childhood. The artist operates a distancing. She blurs the eroticized female characters, thus freeing them from the orientalist scenario that confined them. The phrase “Dreams Have No Titles” acts as a subtitle, a didascale inviting the viewer to question the desires which were projected onto these characters and places.