Shirin Neshat : Two Installations

Neshat, Shirin. Horrigan, Bill (Curator)

ISBN 10: 1881390268 / ISBN 13: 9781881390268

Published by Wexner Centre for the Arts , Ohio, USA, 2000

About this Item

18 x 23cm 56pp good exhibition catalogue with a text by Bill Horrigan and an artist's statement by Shirin Neshat. Produced for a show held at Wexner Centre for the Arts, The Ohio state University, Columbus, Ohio September 16-December 31 2000. With black and white reproductios throughout. Shirin Neshat is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.[ Her artwork centres on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shirin Neshat : Two Installations
• Publisher: Wexner Centre for the Arts , Ohio, USA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881390268
• ISBN 13: 9781881390268
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good in wraps

About this title

Synopsis

One of the most exciting and important young artists of the past decade, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat has addressed issues of nation, colonialism, and gender in a variety of media, always challenging our preconceptions about art and society. She is particularly renowned for her film installations, which have been featured at several Whitney Biennials--and this new catalogue accompanies Raptureand Fervor, the second and third films in a trilogy exploring the social, political and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies. The emphasis here is on the interplay between the explicit text and the implicit subtext in Islamic ritual, and how the emotions stirred up by these rituals can take on mercurial and contradictory forms.

About the Author

Shirin Neshat was born in 1957 in Qazvin, Iran. As a teenager she went to study in the United States, studying art at the University of California at Berkeley during the Iranian Revolution. She has since relocated to New York, where she lives and works. Her work has been extensively exhibited internationally, and has been featured in the Whitney Biennial 2000, and she has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Tate Gallery, London, and the Art Institue of Chicago.