Tag: Shirin Neshat
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Shirin Neshat’s Untitled, with Footnotes #97
Sold for GBP 37,250 in Oct 2008 The present photograph belongs to an early series titled ‘Women of Allah’, in which Neshat depicts Islamic women wearing chadors and tattooed inscriptions of decorative patterns, devotional prayers, or poems in Farsi. She uses the Islamic veil to explore and deconstruct stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed by…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Shirin Neshat’s Unveiling, with Footnotes #187
In the present work, the woman stands still, appears silent yet confident and her gaze captivates the viewer. The Farsi words, amalgams of poems and prose by the Iranian writers Forough Farokhzad and Tahereh Saffarzadeh, ornament the woman’s body, but they are not only decorative as they define the woman’s quest for self-expression and reveal…
Zaidan Gallery 