Tag: Unveiling
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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…