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Living in One Land, Dreaming in Another - Shirin Neshat

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"Dreams are universal."
An air of confidence and vibrancy, but also vulnerability and fragility surround the works of the Iranian artist, photographer, and filmmaker Shirin Neshat (b. Qazvin, 1957; lives and works in New York). Central themes in Neshat's art are identity, origin, and power structures. Her works are defined by a melding and broadening of the rich visual traditions of Persian and Western art. The US-based artist's work is now the subject of the museum's first presentation in association with the Written Art Collection.
Neshat's most recent work, Land of Dreams (2019), revolves around Persian calligraphy and Western canon of portraiture and combines for the fist time the media of photography and video in a single work. Combining documentary and fictional elements, it scrutinizes the American dream and its flipsides. The artist conducted interviews with the portrayed, asking them about their dreams, and then integrated summaries in Persian into the photographs together with traditional visual motifs. Interweaving writing, gestural expression, and formal variety achieves a rhythmical poetic density as it gathers individual narratives that reflect universal human experiences.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition puts the focus on the conjunction of writing and image with a special focus on the series Roja (2016), The Home of My Eyes (2015), The Book of Kings (2012), and Possessed (2001). With a preface by Bernhard Maaz, essays by Sussan Babaie, Christian Boehringer, Judith Csiki and Thomas Kellein, and an interview with the artist by Judith Csiki.


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(b. Qazvin, 1957; lives and works in New York)

Product details

Authors Shirin Neshat
Assisted by Oliver Kase for the Bayerische Staatsge (Editor), Oliver Kase for the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Editor)
Publisher Distanz Verlag
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.03.2025
 
EAN 9783954767199
ISBN 978-3-95476-719-9
No. of pages 184
Dimensions 220 mm x 23 mm x 327 mm
Weight 1383 g
Illustrations Farbabbildungen
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts

Kunst, Verstehen, Zeitgenössische Kunst

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