Jessica Hawkins reviews Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian artist who currently lives in New York. She is a photographer but works with film and video as well too. She has directed films in the Venice Film Festival and won countless awards as well as being named artist of the Decade by Huffington Post. She got her MFA at UC Berkley but after she graduated she didn't do any art for 10 years and instead worked with her husband at their storefront. What really brought her back to art was going back to Iran and being shocked at how it was so different from how she remembered it growing up. Her art focuses on femininity and masculinity and difference with the West and Middle East. She works a lot with women and their experience in contemporary Islamic societies.