{"data":{"id":"5338","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":5338,"topgoose_id":1239,"tms_id":5338,"display_name":"Shirin Neshat","sort_name":"Neshat Shirin","display_date":"1957–","begin_date":"1957","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eShirin Neshat came to the United\nStates in the mid-1970s to study art and,\nafter completing her BFA and MFA at\nthe University of California, Berkeley, was\nunable to return home because of the\nIranian Revolution. Neshat settled in\nNew York and after a twelve-year absence,\nreturned to her country in the early\n1990s. The impact of this visit inspired\nNeshat’s work on an ongoing body\nof photographs, videos, and films that\nspeak to personal, social, religious, and\ngender-based issues within Neshat’s\nnative culture and beyond.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1998 and 2000, Neshat\ncompleted the trilogy of video installations\n\u003cem\u003eTurbulent, \u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/12270\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRapture\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Fervor\u003c/em\u003e, collaborating\nwith the Iranian artist and filmmaker\nShoja Youssefi Azari and the vocalist and\ncomposer Sussan Deyhim. \u003cem\u003eRapture \u003c/em\u003econsists\nof two videos projected on opposing walls.\nOn one screen Neshat depicts a group\nof men, dressed identically in white shirts,\nparticipating in a series of collective rituals\nwithin the confines of a seaside fortress.\nOn the second screen women, clothed\nin black chadors, are assembled in a desert\nlandscape, and eventually make their\nway to a beach where they launch a small\nboat that carries six of them out to sea.\nThe sound, composed by Deyhim, creates a\nmesmerizing effect as the two narratives\nunfold simultaneously. In this haunting\nallegorical work, Neshat presents men and\nwomen in distinctly different relationships\nto culture and nature—men appear confined\nwithin their culture, and women, by engaging\nwith nature, are ultimately empowered\nto leave the boundaries of their culturally\ndefined roles.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500114658","wikidata_id":"Q262413","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:14:41.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-11T07:01:32.141-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/5338/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/5338/exhibitions"}}}}