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Published 15th February 2021
Shirin Neshat on telling complex stories through art
Written by Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat is an internationally acclaimed visual artist working primarily in photography, film and video. All opinions expressed in this article belong to the author. Her newest show, Land of Dreams, is exhibiting at the Gladstone Gallery in New York through February 27, 2021. An accompanying online show can be seen here.
In my artworks I approach beauty as a way to escape the mundane. Beauty isn t just the physicality of my characters, but their raw emotions, dignity and humanity.
As an Iranian, I was born into a culture that is deeply rooted in poetry and mysticism, where beauty means a heightened sense of emotions and spirituality it s a way to cope with the hardship and ugliness of tyranny and everyday life. From childhood, I have been surrounded by Persian and Islamic art, architecture, poetry and music where my eyes and ears were trained to see everyt