28 Mar 2024
Wednesday 3 July 2013 - 12:37
Story Code : 36631

Iranian-American artist welcomes public to share in her DIA exhibit

Iranian-American artist welcomes public to share in her DIA exhibit
I look at my art as sort of a dialogue between my inner and outer world, the Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat told the Free Press when her mid-career retrospective opened at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the spring.
The exhibition, which closes on Sunday, opens a provocative window on issues of identity, gender, power and the lives of women in Islamic societies. It also allows visitors the opportunity to voice a similar dialogue through interactive elements. Inspired by Neshats practice of inscribing poetry directly onto her self-portraits, the DIA has set up a corner in the show where visitors are invited to write a sentence on mirror-like notecards about a hot-button political or cultural issue that affects them. The finished cards are hung on hooks in the exhibit space for all to see.

Hundreds have participated, with messages written in many languages. How am I implicated? Complicit? Resisting? reads one. Guns DO kill people, reads another, to which someone responded directly: NO, people kill people. The result is an installation that holds a mirror up to ourselves as Neshat has held up a mirror to her own life.

ByDetroit Free Press

 

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