Escrito en el cuerpo
Subtitle: Written on the body
By: Shirin Neshat ; comisario/curator, Octavio Zaya ; traduccioÌn/translations, Miguel MarqueÌs, David Alan Prescott ; Octavio Zaya, Ahmad Karimi Hakak, Mahvash Shahegh & Dan Newsome
Contributors: Zaya, Octavio, 1954-; Fundación Telefónica (Madrid, Spain)
Publisher: FundacioÌn TelefoÌnica
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Madrid]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9788415691310
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Exhibitions; Human body; Pictorial works; Artistic Photography; Video art; Islamic civilization; Civilization
Other titles: Written on the body
Work titles: Works
Description: Throughout her extensive career, since she broke onto the international art scene in 1994 with her 'Women of Allah' series, Shirin Neshat's work has developed around the condition of Muslim women, oscillating between a search for cultural identity and the contradictions that arise through historical immersion in the complex existence of exile. This illustrated volume addresses aspects of Neshat's work in relation to the body, showing the tensions between the experience of women and the cultural meanings that are inscribed on the female body. Indeed, for Neshat and many other feminist writers and artists, the female body is a symbol and a battlefield where different rhetorical and political ideologies are discussed.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held in 2013 at the FundacioÌn TelefoÌnica in Madrid and sponsored by PHotoEspanÌa and FundacioÌn TelefoÌnica.

"...this exhibition presents twenty photographs and two video-installations by Neshat, including an important set of works from her most recent activity, produced in 2012 and inspired by The book of kings, the great national epic of Persian literature."--Page 8.

Text in English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Escrito en el cuerpo = Written on the body / Octavio Zaya; title: Obras en exposicioÌn = Works in exhibition; title: El arte de Shirin Neshat = The art of Shirin Neshat / Shahram Karimi; title: Obras en cataÌlogo = Works in catalogue; title: BiografiÌa = Biography.