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SHIRIN NESHAT
born 1957
I am its Secret, from the series "Women of Allah" - 1993
Original Hand Signed Color Photograph
Title : I am its Secret, from the series "Women of Allah"
Technique : Original Color Photograph.
Work size : 49 X 33 cm / 19.3 X 13 inch.
Additional Information : This Photograph is Hand Signed, Titled and Dated in ink on the reverse by the artist "Shirin Neshat".
Shirin Neshat was born in Iran in 1957 and went to the USA to study art. After completing her studies in the University of California at Berkeley, she moved to New York and first returned to Iran in 1990. During her absence, the country had gone through the Islamic revolution of 1979 and had changed completely.
New York based artist Shirin Neshat achieved international fame upon the publication of her photographic series “Women of Allah” (1993-1997), which can meanwhile be called iconic. The series was highly successful on the Western exhibition circuit from the start and attracted a great deal of attention.
In all of her series, Neshat incorporates three components: the veil, the body and calligraphied Farsi texts. Neshat painstakingly hand-paints these texts, generally works by contemporary Muslim female poets, onto the photographs. The Women of Allah series primarily uses the poetry of Tahereh Saffarzadeh, who was deeply entrenched in the Islamic Revolution.
By photographing herself draped in a chador, and by writing contemporary poems in Farsi on the remaining bare surfaces, she links several discursive levels. On the one hand there is the interface between the private and public spheres; public space is regarded as male, private space as female. A prominent, albeit incrusted symbol of Islam, the chador marks the interstice of cultural difference and is thus a sign of intercultural perception or image production, whereas the ornamental script, which further enshrouds the images, underscores the distance from reality characterizing perceptions of conflicts and culture in the Middle East.
Another impression from this same image was sold by Christie's Dubai in the 24th of May 2006 for $40,000 (lot 112, page 138, illustrated)
Literature: Shirin Neshat, "Women of Allah", Vancouver, 1997, p.17, illustrated.
Condition : Excellent condition.
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Modern Fine Art: Paintings & Original Prints
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Tuesday, 6 March, 2007 11 am- 5pm
Tuesday, 13 March, 2007 11 am- 5pm
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