Shirin Neshat

A Garden of Eden without Adam

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Shirin Neshat creates visually stunning short films and art. The Iranian-born artist may be best known for her photographic series “Women of Allah” (1993-97) which depicts women wearing the chador, some carrying guns, their faces and hands covered with finely written Persian script. Her first feature-length film, “Women Without Men” (2009), has traveled across the […]

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