Overview
Of the great female figures in history, Cleopatra, Egypt’s last sovereign, is the most popular. Since his suicide two thousand years ago, his fame has continued to grow – a reputation all the more surprising because no ancient biography founded it.
Around his character were forged a black legend and then a universal figure, combining passion and death, pleasure and cruelty, wealth and war, politics and feminism. These countless facets inhabit our imaginations in all areas of creation, and even consumption.
The works of Shourouk Rhaiem, presented in the exhibition of the Institut du Monde Arabe, "The Mystery of Cleopatra", are part of this tradition by updating the myth through objects from our daily lives to the image of the empress.
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