SHIRIN NESHAT
Shirin Neshat is a visual artist whose parents came from Iran. Neshats parents completely disowned the ideologies and customs of their home country.However her father encouraged her to be an independent person and to think for herself, because he belived in the freedom of thought and beliefs. Neshat now lives in New York, and her work refers mainly to the cultural and religious codes of her past (Islam and Iran )but works with her present (New York ) and secularism. Neshat used these images to comment on the violence of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Historically, the role of women in Iran is fraught with repression and restriction. Thus, feminist poetry was an important source of inspiration for Neshat's series of photographs. The verses handwritten on the photographs reinforce Neshat's feminist beliefs (she often quotes the poet Furugh Farrukhzad) and also engage with images of violence. Visually the presence of writing on the faces, hands, and feet of the women depicted alludes to the silencing of women in Muslim society.
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