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Shirin Neshat
Category: Visuals
Country: Iran
About
Neshat a contemporary visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her work refers to the social, cultural and religious codes of Muslim societies and the complexity of certain oppositions, such as man and woman. It addresses the social, political and psychological dimensions of women’s experience in contemporary Islamic societies. Although Neshat actively resists stereotypical representations of Islam, her artistic objectives are not explicitly polemical. Rather, her work recognizes the complex intellectual and religious forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world.
The history of Shirin Neshat’s bodily portrayals of this “Islamic woman” is the unwritten chronicle of a mute and concealed femininity. Her photographs show and tell what has been forbidden to show and tell.
Sources
Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men, 2010
Hamid Dabashi’s, The Gun and the Gaze, 1997
