Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat (born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran) is a contemporary visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Neshat's parents were upper middle-class. Her father was a well-respected physician and her mother a homemaker. She grew up in a westernized household that adored the Shah of Iran and his ideologies. Neshat has stated about her father, "He fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both my parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort. It served their class" (Mackenzie 3). As a part of Neshat's "Westernization" she was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school in Tehran. She found the environment cold and hostile in comparison to her caring family.
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[jahankhatoon1]

EXCELLENT PHOTOS. They show the dept of the misery of women in Iran. It is not just hejab by itself a problem it is a tool with which they stop us from all other things. If it were not for Iranian women resistance the last 29 years Iran would have been another Saudi Arabia long before. The Iranian men should start to use chador too both to protest and to see how it is to wear that and live with that all the time. For those who want Islamic government why do not you go to live in Arabia ?

[pacco74]

This is ART at pink of perfection. My highest 5Star ever! Thanx

[SMcG2012]

@hit004541 They are poems from an Iranian poet named Tahereh Saffarzadeh. I'm not sure what each poem means.

[dagrassigrl]

@jahankhatoon1 I think the problem is that there are people who believe that they can add laws to Sharia and make life more oppressing when, in reality, these "laws" have nothing to do with Islam

[AtaGET]

Super !!!

[shoreh2000]

Truly avant gard!!!! It is still amazing to see how woman are looked at and been treated throughout history. Not just in an Iranian society but also some societies like the Japanese and African, etc. Even religion has been very harsh to woman!!! With woman like Shirin, woman will, once again, rule the world for years to come!!! :D

[hit004541]

What does the text on the hands and feet mean???

[52michail]

BEAUTIFUL VIDEO. FANTASTIC ARTIST.

[52michail]

free all people from enslavement from the islamic satanic iri,

WE SHAILL OVER COME, YES WE CAN........FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY WILL

[ivaanaleeallan]

What's with you and copy and pasting these things?

[armyyg]

wonderfuuul :) <3

[CleCrocco]

grande artista,grande donna!