Shirin Neshat analyzes the female dimension in contemporary Islamic society, in particular the Iranian one that she herself hails from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women of Allah<\/em> is a photographic series made between 1993 and 1997, through which the artist explores the complexity of the female dimension in Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1978-79. Neshat was already living in the United States when the revolution broke out. She could not return to Iran until 1990, and was shocked to see the transformation of her country with respect to what it had been like during her adolescent years. In Women of Allah<\/em> the artist portrays veiled Iranian women who are often depicted while holding firearms. She thus expresses the figure of the woman in all her complexity and ambiguity, caught up in the duality of roles that Post-Revolutionary Iranian society assigns her: on the one hand, subjected to the restrictions imposed by strict religious rules (the compulsory wearing of the chador), and, on the other, the opposite condition, which wants her to be responsible, a participant, and a warrior (see the presence of firearms). The few parts of skin left uncovered by the chador are covered in passage from texts in Farsi, whose contents vary from religious to secular subjects, exploring the spheres of intimacy, sexuality, and feminism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":526,"template":"","categorie_opere":[],"curatela":[33],"class_list":["post-1048","opere","type-opere","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","curatela-clarice-pecori-gilardi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n