Jeanne et Moreau is the name of artist duo Lara Tabet and Randa Mirza. The duo started working in 2018 on a long-term project called End-to-End Encrypted in reference to the data encryption system, in which only the communicating users can read the messages.
This work draws on their common image bank and questions the relationship of the two artists to new digital technologies and their place in the world as queer women artists. It accompanies the trajectory of their couple as well as their relationship to the photographic medium and to the contexts of production, transmission, sharing and reception of images.
Randa Mirza is a visual artist that works with photography and video. She creates live video performances and make optical devises to question representation and the gaze point of view. Her work seeks to review normalized, gendered and orientalist illustrations by making visible the current symbolic, social and political constructs.
Lara Tabet is a practicing medical doctor and visual artist. Her artistic practice is informed by her background in pathology and inspects the legacy of trauma in Lebanon. Her work contemplates the relationship between the individual and public/private space in connection to gender, sexuality, and identity. More recently, her practice has shifted towards arts and sciences and her ongoing research focuses on water as a site of political speculation as well as DNA as a medium for archiving.