Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat (b. 1957, Ghazvin, Iran) grew up in a well-placed Iranian family with pro-Western views. At age 17, she left for Berkeley to study at the University of California, then made her way in the USA as a photographer. She came to narrative film via lyrical video installations (eg. "Rapture", 1999, "Turbulent", 1998), and she has enjoyed independent shows at New York's Whitney Museum, and the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Montreal. The main topics of her work… (más)