Rania Matar was born in Beirut and currently lives in the US. “In her series ‘A Girl and Her Room,’ she juxtaposes images of teenagers in the United States and the Middle East, revealing the universality of themes of developing identity. … The dyed-blonde Christilla [photographed in Rabieh, Lebanon] is curled up in a chair in front of a large blowup of Marilyn Monroe, and the pink of her wall is picked up in the accents of pink fingernail nails and a pink bra. The order of the carefully arranged DVDs coexists with the disorder of the scattered shoes on the floor.”

‘The Metro,’ posted earlier: