About the artwork
Shirin Neshat uses her signature combination of calligraphy and photography in a new limited edition based on one of the artist's most important works. The work is complemented by a separate silkscreen layer in Farsi, handwritten by Shirin. This edition is part of the conceptual period of the artist's flagship series, Women of Allah (1993-1997), a body of work that addresses the interconnected nature of women's bodies and political and religious ideology.
Expert opinion
With Unveiling Series #1, Shirin Neshat confronts the tension between visibility and censorship, delivering an image of silent intensity in which the female body becomes a terrain of poetic and political resistance.
About the artist
Shirin Neshat, born in 1957 in Qazvin (Iran), is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker exiled in the United States since the Islamic Revolution. Trained at the University of California, Berkeley, she made a name for herself in the 1990s with her powerful photographs combining female bodies, Persian calligraphy and Islamic symbols. Her work explores the tensions between tradition and modernity, female identity, exile and political authority. Alternating between video, photography and cinema, she creates a committed and poetic body of work, marked by cultural duality. Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2009, she is now one of the leading voices in international contemporary art.
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