Artist field note

Shirin Neshat

The image becomes a charged border between power and identity.

Rapture by Shirin Neshat
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Rapture

1999

Gendered groups move through architecture and landscape toward radically different possibilities.

The five in one idea

Neshat stages identity where gender, faith, exile and political representation cannot be neatly separated.