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creating stark visual contrasts through motifs such as light and dark, black and white, male and female. Neshat has also made more traditional narrative short films, such as Zarin. The work of Neshat addresses the social, political and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies. Although Neshat actively resists stereotypical representations of Islam, her artistic objectives are not explicitly polemical. Rather, her work recognizes the complex intellectual and religious forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world. Using Persian poetry and calligraphy she examined concepts such as martyrdom, the space of exile, the issues of identity and femininity. In 2001-02, Neshat collaborated with singer Sussan Deyhim and created Logic of the Birds, which was produced by curator and art historian RoseLee Goldberg. The full length multimedia production premiered at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2002 and toured to the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis and to Artangel in incorporate music, Neshat uses sound to help create an emotionally evocative and beautiful piece that will resonate with viewers of both Eastern and Western cultures. In an interview with Bomb magazine in 2000, Neshat revealed, "Music becomes the soul, the personal, the intuitive, and neutralizes the sociopolitical aspects of the work. This combination of image and music is meant to create an experience that moves the audience." Neshat was profiled in The New Yorker magazine on October 22, 2007. When Neshat first came to use film, she was influenced by the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.She directed several videos, among them Anchorage (1996) and, projected on two opposing walls: Shadow under the Web (1997), Turbulent (1998), Rapture (1999) and Soliloquy (1999). Neshat's recognition became more international in 1999, when she won the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale with Turbulent and Rapture, a project involving almost 250 extras and produced by
the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont which met with critical and public success after its worldwide avantpremière at the Art Institute of Chicago in May 1999. With Rapture, Neshat tried for the first time to make pure photography with the intent of creating an aesthetic, poetic, and emotional shock. Games of Desire, a video and still-photography piece, was displayed between September 3 and October 3 at the Gladstone Gallery in Brussels before moving in November to the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris. The film, which is based in Laos, centers on a small group of elderly people who sing folk songs with sexual lyrics - a practice which had been nearing obsolescence. In 2009 she won the Silver Lion for best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival for her directorial debut Women Without Men, based on Shahrnush Parsipur's novel of the same name. She said about the movie: "This has been a labour of love for six years.(...) This film speaks to the world and to my country."The film examines the 1953 British-American backed coup, which supplanted Iran's democratically elected government with a monarchy. In July 2009 Neshat took part in a three-day hunger strike at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in protest of the 2009 Iranian presidential election Exhibitions and film festivals Since her first solo exhibition, at Franklin Furnace in New York in 1993, Neshat has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2002); Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Dallas Museum of Art (2000); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Serpentine Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León; and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2005). In 2008, her solo exhibition “Women Without Men” opened at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, and traveled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
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the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont<br />
which met with critical and public<br />
success after its worldwide avantpremière<br />
at the <strong>Art</strong> Institute of<br />
Chicago in <strong>May</strong> 1999.<br />
With Rapture, Neshat tried for the<br />
first time to make pure<br />
photography with the intent of<br />
creating an aesthetic, poetic, and<br />
emotional shock. Games of Desire,<br />
a video and still-photography<br />
piece, was displayed between<br />
September 3 and October 3 at the<br />
Gladstone Gallery in Brussels<br />
before moving in November to the<br />
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in<br />
Paris. The film, which is based in<br />
Laos, centers on a small group of<br />
elderly people who sing folk songs<br />
with sexual lyrics - a practice which<br />
had been nearing obsolescence.<br />
In 2009 she won the Silver Lion for<br />
best director at the 66th Venice<br />
Film Festival for her directorial<br />
debut Women Without Men,<br />
based on Shahrnush Parsipur's<br />
novel of the same name. She said<br />
about the movie: "This has been a<br />
labour of love for six years.(...) This<br />
film speaks to the world and to my<br />
country."The film examines the<br />
1953 British-American backed<br />
coup, which supplanted Iran's<br />
democratically elected government<br />
with a monarchy.<br />
In July 2009 Neshat took part in a<br />
three-day hunger strike at the<br />
United Nations Headquarters in<br />
New York in protest of the 2009<br />
Iranian presidential election<br />
Exhibitions and film festivals<br />
Since her first solo exhibition, at<br />
Franklin Furnace in New York in<br />
1993, Neshat has been featured in<br />
solo exhibitions at the Museo de<br />
<strong>Art</strong>e Moderno, Mexico City;<br />
Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>s Museum,<br />
Houston; Walker <strong>Art</strong> Center,<br />
Minneapolis (2002); Castello di<br />
Rivoli, Turin; Dallas Museum of <strong>Art</strong><br />
(2000); Wexner Center for the <strong>Art</strong>s,<br />
Columbus; the <strong>Art</strong> Institute of<br />
Chicago; the Serpentine Gallery,<br />
London; Museo de <strong>Art</strong>e<br />
Contemporáneo de Castilla y León,<br />
León; and the Hamburger Bahnhof,<br />
Berlin (2005). In 2008, her solo<br />
exhibition “Women Without Men”<br />
opened at the ARoS Aarhus<br />
Kunstmuseum, Denmark, and<br />
traveled to the National Museum of<br />
Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>, Athens
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