Shirin Neshat
dal 29/9/2005 al 4/12/2005
Segnalato da
29/9/2005
Shirin Neshat
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2 new works: 'Mahdokht' (2004) and 'Zarin' (2005). The two film installations mark the beginning of what is to become a five-part feature film entitled 'Women without Men'. The novel of the same name by Shahrnush Parsipur was published in Tehran in 1989, soon after which it was banned due to its daring, liberal style and the author arrested. After Parsipur's provocative allegory of life in contemporary Iran, Neshat's newest poetic vision traces the lives of 5 women who find themselves in a garden of ephemeral paradise.
In her first solo exhibition in Berlin, Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat introduces two new works: Mahdokht (2004) and Zarin (2005). The two film installations mark the beginning of what is to become a five-part feature film entitled Women without Men. The novel of the same name by Shahrnush Parsipur was published in Tehran in 1989, soon after which it was banned due to its
daring, liberal style and the author arrested.
Shirin Neshat’s latest series of films signals her entry into the realm of feature filmmaking and consolidates the mythological turn taken by her work in Tooba (2002). After Parsipur’s provocative allegory of life in contemporary Iran, Neshat’s newest poetic vision traces the lives of five women who find themselves in a garden of ephemeral paradise having followed fraught and laborious paths to arrive there.
Born in 1957 in Qazvin, Iran, Shirin Neshat moved as a teenager to the USA to study art, five years before the revolution overtook her country in 1979. Her first return to her home country in 1990, her encounter with a land so culturally, politically and socially altered in the period of her absence, inspired the photos of Women of Allah, a series whose loaded symbolism and captivating minimalism were highly provocative. A selection of works from this series is on view in the Berlin exhibition, as is the film Rapture (1999), which explores the interstices of gender and Islamic culture, an examination of cultural uprootedness and exile.
Her film installations have appeared at Documenta 11 (2002) alongside many of the major international biennales from Sydney to Kwangju to São Paulo. In 1999 she was honored with the Golden Lion award at the 48th Biennale of Venice in 1999, and in 2004 she was awarded an honorary professorship at the Universität der Künste, Berlin.
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Guided Tours (in German only):
Sun 2 pm Introductory Tour
Sun 16 October & Sun 13 November 2005 12 pm
Shirin Neshat’s Poetic Worlds beyond the Veil
Sun 30 October & Sun 27 November 2005 12 pm
Shirin Neshat and Modernity in Iran
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Symposium:
The Photographic Orient
Saturday, 5 November 2005, 10 am – 6 pm
in the Aktionsraum at the Hamburger Bahnhof
Free admission
The Orient no longer exists. It has become a historical category and now stands, in nostalgic retrospect, for a utopian, supposedly archaic fairyland among other things. The first part of the symposium will discuss the medium of photography in terms of its significance for representations of the Orient. The second part will focus on the images of the Orient produced by the mass media, followed by a discussion of contemporary art’s interaction and examination of the topos of the Orient.
Concept: Britta Schmitz, Alexandra Karentzos
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Film Program:
In conjunction with the Shirin Neshat exhibition the Arsenal Cinema will be screening an international selection of films that have been an important point of reference for Neshat in her practice. The program also features a range of historic and contemporary examples of Iranian cinema and will include the documentary fiction Maria de Los Angeles, which was filmed by Shoja Azari during the shoot for Shirin Neshat’s installation Tooba.
Kino Arsenal / Filmhaus am Potsdamer Platz
Ph: +49 30 269 55 100, www.fdk-berlin.de
Wed. 10/5, 7.00 pm
Maria de Los Angeles
Shoja Azari USA 2003 57’ OmE (DVD)
Wed. 10/12, 7.00 pm
Khaneh siah ast (Das Haus ist schwarz)
Forough Farokhzad Iran 1963 OmE 22’ (VHS)
&
Yek Etefagh Sadeh (Ein einfaches Ereignis)
Sohrab Shahid Saless Iran 1973 OmU 80’
Wed. 10/19, 7.00 pm
Zendegi va digar hich (Und das Leben geht weiter)
Abbas Kiarostami Iran 1991 OmU 91’
Wed. 10/26, 7.00 pm
Yume (Akira Kurosawas Träume)
Akira Kurosawa Japan 1990 OmU 119’
Wed. 11/2. 7.00 pm
Stalker
Regie: Andrej Tarkowski
UdssR 1979 OmU 163
Wed. 11/9. 7.00 pm
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar Wai Hong Kong 2000 OmU 98’
Wed. 11/16, 7.00 pm
Ein kurzer Film über die Liebe
Krzysztof Kieslowski Polen 1988 OmU 86’
Wed. 11/30, 7.00 pm
Die Farbe des Granatapfels
Sergej Paradshanov UdSSR/Armenien 1969 73’ OmU
Concept: Beatrice E. Stammer, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
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This exhibition will be shown:
January 21st – April 2nd 2006
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg
Mönchsberg 32
5020 Salzburg
Ph: +43 662 842220
http://www.museumdermoderne.at
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Concept & Coordination:
Britta Schmitz & Beatrice E. Stammer
generously supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Image: Zarin Series (Women without Men) 2005
Photo: Larry Barns
© Shirin Neshat
Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York
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