Shirin Neshat
Born 1957, Qazvin, Iran currently living in New York. She completed her MFA, MA and BA at UC Berkeley. She moved to San Francisco after the Iranian revolution and started to study art. After she got her degree she moved to New York. Her main focus is film, videography and photography. She mainly focuses on the cultural, political, psychological and social aspects of women in Islam. It refers to cultural, social and religious code as a Muslim.
One of her series that I really like is the Women of Allah series. The women of Allah series they are portraits of females with Persian calligraphy written on them. Which is was bought by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She created this piece after her first trip back to Iraq after 1993. She used this collection of images to reflect on the violence in Iran after the revolution. The written texts are poetry taken from Furugh Farrukhzad about feminist beliefs.
In 2009 she won a reward for best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival for her video "Women without Men". This film was based on the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur.
I feel like I can really relate to her about leaving her home country and living in the United States but still relating her art to whom she is. I like that she does not forget where she is from and like to show the world through her art. I feel like I am at the point in my art where I want to depict who I am without literally telling someone who I am. I feel like with my photography I am finding myself through my images.
Her photos are very intriguing to me because she does them very discretely. I really feel like they are aesthetically pleasing.
Links:
http://www.time.com/time/europe/photoessays/neshat/
http://www.gladstonegallery.com/neshat.asp
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/may/14/women-without-men/
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