Faurschou Beijing – the Chinese branch of Danish Gallery Faurschou – presents "Women without Men" - a monumental film opus by the Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat, from October 25th. It is her first exhibition in China.Shirin Neshat is known for her poetic and beautiful photographs and video films portraying Islamic culture in conceptual and stylized form. Being an Iranian living most of her life in exile in USA, she has with strength portrayed the many complexities within current Islamic culture, between religion and secularization, women and men, tradition and modernity, Eat and West. She is thus providing us with more varied images of fundamental human problems in contemporary Islamic culture, rather than the simplistic, stereotypically negative images of Islam we have become used to seeing in the media after 9/11.
"Women without Men" is a series of 5 films that Shirin Neshat has created between 2004-2008. The film narratives are based on the controversial magical realist novel "Women without Men" from 1989 by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, whose entire literary ouvre is banned in Iran today.
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