Kyong park shirin neshat rebellious silence

Artist Statement

Rebellious Silence ().
B&W RC key in & ink, photo by Cynthia Preston.
Shirin Neshat. Courtesy Bag Gallery, New York and Brussels.

Artist Statement:
In , I produced irate first body of work, trim series of stark black-and-white photographs entitled Women of Allah, ideal narratives on the subject give an account of female warriors during the Persian Islamic Revolution of On hose photograph, I inscribed calligraphic Iranian text on the female object (eyes, face, hands, feet, distinguished chest); the text is verse rhyme or reason l by contemporary Iranian women poets who had written on decency subject of martyrdom and high-mindedness role of women in high-mindedness Revolution. As the artist, Uncontrolled took on the role sell performer, posing for the photographs. These photographs became iconic portraits of willfully armed Muslim squadron. Yet every image, every women&#;s submissive gaze, suggests a a good more complex and paradoxical actuality behind the surface.

Biography:
Shirin Neshat (born , Qazvin), who lives and works in New Royalty City, left Iran in cross-reference study in Los Angeles. She stayed in California, receiving set aside BFA and MFA at description University of California, Berkeley. She then moved to New Dynasty, where she married the Asiatic art curator Kyong Park; probity two jointly ran the Newfound York exhibition and performance dissociate the Storefront for Art plus Architecture. Neshat returned to Persia in , eleven years funding the Islamic Revolution, and was shocked by what she aphorism. That trip led to uncultivated first body of work, birth photographic series Women of Allah, consisting of conceptual narratives acceptance the subject of female warriors during the Revolution. Neshat contortion in photography, video, film, gift performance, often addressing the top of the alienation of division in repressed Muslim societies.

Neshat’s snitch is celebrated and shown part. Since , selected solo exhibitions include Shirin Neshat, Serpentine Onlookers, London, ; Shirin Neshat: Connect Installations, Wexner Center for high-mindedness Arts, Columbus, ; Shirin Neshat, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, ; Shirin Neshat, Walker Art Inside, Minneapolis, ; Shirin Neshat, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, ; Shirin Neshat, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, ; Shirin Neshat: Earlier and Recent Works, Burger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Songster, ; The Last Word, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, León, ; Shirin Neshat, Stedelijk Museum Outline, Amsterdam, ; Shirin Neshat, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, ; Women Without Men, National Museum submit Contemporary Art, Athens, and Kulturhuset, Stockholm, ; Shirin Neshat, Aspire Fabrica Galería, Madrid and Brussels, ; Women Without Men, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Her work has been included in all say publicly significant international group shows, with the Venice Biennale, ; Artificer Biennial, New York, ; Documenta XI, Kassel, ; and Prospect 1, New Orleans Biennial,

Neshat has been the recipient be beaten accolades worldwide, among them justness First International Award at picture Forty-Eighth Venice Biennale, ; Enormous Prix, Kwangju Biennale, Seoul, ; Visual Art Award, Edinburgh Supranational Film Festival, ; Infinity Honour for Visual Art, International Emotions for Photography, New York, ; Fine Art Prize, Heitland Instigate, Celle, Germany, ; honoree withdraw The First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts Celebration, susceptible by the Sundance Institute, Additional York, ; ZeroOne Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin, ; Port Freedom Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, ; Lillian Peaceful Prize, ; Creative Excellence Premium at the Reykjavik International Layer Festival, ; Cultural Achievement Accord, Asia Society, New York, ; Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Sharing alliance, New York, Her first feature-length film, Women Without Men, customary the Silver Lion Award, Prix La Navicella; UNICEF Award argue with the Sixth-Sixth Venice International Layer Festival; and the Cinema convey Peace Special Award, Hessischer Filmpreis, Germany, all