{"product_id":"shirin-neshat","title":"Shirin Neshat","description":"\u003cp\u003eA multidisciplinary artist, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShirin Neshat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1957, Qazvin) works with photography, video, film and theatre, creating highly lyrical narratives and politically loaded visions that question the themes of power, religion, race and the relationship between past and present, east and west, individual and collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume, on the occasion of the first major solo exhibition in Italy dedicated to Neshat at PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, spans the artist’s more than 30-year career, with almost 200 photographs and ten video installations, collected by the world’s most important museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Guggenheim, New York and Tate Modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeshat interprets the history and present of her birth country, Iran, and indeed the whole world from the female perspective: from her debut in the 1990s with the \u003cem\u003eWomen of Allah\u003c\/em\u003e series, comprising photographs of women whose bodies are inscribed with poetic calligraphy, to \u003cem\u003eThe Fury,\u003c\/em\u003e a video installation that anticipates the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeshat’s work, however, goes beyond the theme of gender and uses male\/female dualism as a starting point for exploring the tension between belonging and exile, sanity and insanity, dream and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText in English and Italian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silvana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54763168072024,"sku":"9788836660537","price":42.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9788836660537_31f5f3b1-d794-4c75-a264-a883886d7bd9.jpg?v=1778661056","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shirin-neshat","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}