Portrait of Shirin Neshat (for source of image click here)
We had the rare privilege yesterday of having Shirin Nashat, the Iranian/ American artist, photographer and film-maker, and her partner Shoja Azari, as our (the MFA students & faculty) guests here at VCUQ... During our roughly hour long, quite intimate, debating session many very relevant political, social, cultural, gender role based topics were covered. This was followed by a public presentation, which was a joint effort organized both by VCUQ and the Doha Film Institute/ Doha Tribeca Film Festival. Her work, which explores some of the topics mentioned above, has a fragile and delicate quality to it. Her movie 'Women Without Men' has already won a trophy-chest full of awards and will be screened today here in Education City at Northwestern University Qatar between 2.00 pm - 5.30 pm... For a link to the film's web site click here...
For samples of her photographic work click here...
Included below is her video piece 'Turbulent'...
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