Shirin Neshat

This book is published on the occasion of Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, the largest exhibition to date of internationally acclaimed artist Shirin Neshat’s approximately 30-year career.

 

Taking its title from a poem by Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, the exhibition (which presented over 230 photographs and eight immersive video installations works) offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of Neshat’s artistic journey as she explores topics of exile, displacement, and identity with beauty, dynamic formal invention, and poetic grace. Beginning with her early photograph series, Women of Allah, the exhibition also features iconic video works such as Rapture, Turbulent, and Passage, monumental photography installations including The Book of Kings and The Home of My Eyes. 

 

Throughout her career, Neshat has constructed poetic worlds in which women and men navigate narratives that mirror interior and political realities. Inside of and against these metaphoric worlds, Neshat studies the specifics of both individual and cultural gestures and poses, often assembling and interviewing real people who have lived through some of the most turbulent events of recent history, including the Green Movement in Iran and the Arab Spring in Egypt.

Published by the Broad Museum, 2019.

Hardcover
English
240 pages
9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; 23.5 x 28.5 cm

ISBN 9783791358758