About the artwork
Shirin Neshat transforms an atmospheric visual from her acclaimed film Women Without Men into a limited edition of photographic prints. In this 2009 film, her first feature, Shirin Neshat tells the story of Iranian women who t
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From her major photographic series, this image questions gender, identity and exile through a striking black-and-white mise-en-scène. Neshat's combination of political urgency and poetic symbolism has made her one of the world's most influential photographers.
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.
“"My work has always been born of a feeling of being torn between two cultures,between tradition and modernity." - Shirin Neshat on her practice”
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