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by katie in category Art News | 2009/11/09 | (0) Comments
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Six years ago, when Shirin Neshat began work on her first feature film, Women Without Men, she could not have known that its completion would coincide with a global mass uprising against the political travesties of her home nation, Iran. The film, photography, and video installation artist — known for wistful, haunting images of Iranian women oppressed by a postrevolutionary regime she has watched from exile in America — makes no secret of her disdain for the authoritarian actions in that country. In July she participated in a three-day hunger strike at the United Nations headquarters in New York to protest the recent elections there. "The Iranian problem is not just an Iranian problem," she has said. "It’s a world problem." And Women Without Men, although it does not directly address the current situation, does so indirectly, through the story of the 1953 British- and American-backed coup that replaced Iran’s democratically elected government with a monarchy.
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