Sep 24th 2010
Shirin Neshat: Rapture
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Iranian-born Shirin Neshat has played a pivotal role in discourse about identity and gender in her native country and the Islamic faith.
Influential art critic Arthur Danto has called Rapture (1999), an 11-minute video and sound installation, Neshat’s masterpiece. Projected onto opposite screens, the highly-stylized Rapture shows what Neshat has called “an allegorical duel” between white-shirted men occupying a seaside fortress on one side and, on the other, black-veiled women moving from a desert to the beach outside the fortress. The stark beauty of the landscapes, the contrasting poses and actions of the actors, and the layered soundtrack create a hypnotic, encompassing experience.
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