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Voice of the Veil.(Shirin Neshat)(Brief biography)
Shirin Neshat's "Rapture" (1999) is a twelve-minute video-and-sound installation, shot in black-and-white. On one screen, the viewer sees the silhouette of a seaside fortress; a second depicts a rock-littered wilderness. The sound of rushing wind gives way to strange music--guttural chanting, underlaid with ominous thrums. On the first screen, a corps of white-shirted men marches toward the camera; the other screen fills with a mass of women in black chadors. The men begin to move through the alleyways of a town toward the fortress and, arriving, prop ladders against its walls to ascend the ramparts. As some of their brethren, and the camera, watch from above, a group of ...
- Pittsburg: Les voix du sublime (Shirin Neshat, Carnegie International, Carnegie...
- Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal Blanchette, Manon June 1, 2000 700+ words
Shirin Neshat, Shirin Neshat, cette etoile montante du monde des arts visuels qui a deja remporte...soit indiscutablement feministe, l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de Shirin Neshat regorge d'univers souvent evoques plutot que decrits, jouant...
- Shirin Neshat: la querelle des images.
- Magazine article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine Nathalie Leleu October 1, 2000 700+ words
...Islamique d'Iran declare l'artiste Shirin Neshat persona non grata sur son territoire...annees de formation en Californie, Shirin Neshat s'installe a New York, dont...international 1999). Que reproche a Shirin Neshat l'Islam chiite ? Tout d'abord...
- Shirin Neshat. (Reviews).(Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal,...
- Magazine article from: C: International Contemporary Art Douglas, Susan J. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...Janet Cardiff, Maria Hlady, Mona Hatoum, Bill Viola, Shirin Neshat. Sound gives their work a critical edge. Music establishes a rupture in Shirin Neshat's installation pieces: sound helps to create an indefinite...
- The Power of the Veil - Shirin Neshat's Iran.
- Magazine article from: World and I TENAGLIA, SUSAN December 1, 2002 700+ words
For twenty years, acclaimed visual artist Shirin Neshat has faithfully captured the plight of everyday women...offers a troublesome view. Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat's series of arresting photographs and cinematic meditations...
- Shirin Neshat.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Heartney, Eleanor June 1, 2009 700+ words
...LAST 12 YEARS, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat (b. 1957) has produced a series...series of weeks, I spoke with Neshat about the genesis of the "Women...How did this project come about? SHIRIN NESHAT At the time I was in Documenta...
- Shirin Neshat at Annina Nosei.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Reid, Calvin March 1, 1996 700+ words
Shirin Neshat's photographic vision combines Western...construction of personality. Iranian-born Neshat came to the U.S. when she was 16 and...these theocratically approved body parts, Neshat's photos often feature women holding...
- Artist Shirin Neshat and Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, president of the Cisneros...
- Magazine article from: Art in America October 1, 2008 700+ words
Artist Shirin Neshat and Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, president of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami, are among the recipients of the Women Together Awards, which honor work promoting social and economic equality.
- Shirin Neshat at Barbara Gladstone.
- Magazine article from: Art in America Nichols, Matthew Guy March 1, 2006 700+ words
The video installations of Shirin Neshat often employ stylized formal devices...Since their first appearance in 1997, Neshat's dual-screen projections of stark...from a feature-length film that Neshat plans to release in the near future...