Shirin Neshat :Women of Allah

It is long time that I want to talk about Shirin Neshat. She is a Iranian woman, a visual artist who lives in New York City.

She became popular for:  Women of Allah (1993–97) series, which explore notions of femininity in relation to Islamic fundamentalism and militancy in her home country. As a way of coping with the discrepancy between the culture that she was experiencing and that of the pre-revolution Iran in which she was raised, she began her first mature body of work, the Women of Allah series, portraits of women entirely overlaid by Persian calligraphy.

Her work refers to the social, cultural and religious codes of Muslim societies and the complexity of certain oppositions, such as man and woman. Neshat often emphasizes this theme showing two or more coordinated films concurrently, creating stark visual contrasts through motifs such as light and dark, black and white, male and female

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 Rebellious Silence, from the series Women of Allah, 1994. Photograph: Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels