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Hi, wanted to talk about the artist Shirin Neshat. Shirin Neshat is a feminist artist, she born in Qazvín, Irán, in 1957. She works with photograph and object, but with also graph presence in his work. She takes photographs of his body and face with a high critical content about the form of see the femele identity in middle East. Some of his works are: Women of Allah, Fervor, Unveiling, Faezeh, Mahdokht, Munis, Zarin, Rapture, Turbulent, Passage, Soliloquy. 

The body becomes a metaphor of the differences of gender in the islamic world. She calls into question the stereotype of women in east but also in west. The body is the support in wherein is enrolled the representation of the difference of gender and identity. Shirin Neshat used the body as tool for propose a critical image about de social problematic, politics and study of the sexuality.

The image of the work of Shirin Neshat are very powerful, with  high contrast, she used colors as: black, red and white, with symbols islamic. She used arms in his images, for maximize the idea of the violence that observed daily in the middle east. The look of Shirin in the photos, play an importante role, because gives a power representative of the rage accumulated historically.

The work of Shirin is very important, first for his visual potential, second for his feminist content, is a principal referent of artist that defend the femele identity, and reported the inequality that until today the women live. Also is important because propouse a new vision about the female compared with other works of other artist that work with the femele identity or gender violence.

Shirin Neshat is my principal artist reference.