Courtesy of Shirin Neshat and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels
Shirin Neshat, "Untitled, from Roja series," 2016.
The opening of the "Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again" exhibit at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has been postponed from Friday due to last week's hazardous weather and road conditions. The exhibit will now open Sunday and run through May 16.
The exhibit, named after a poem by the late Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, covers 30 years of Neshat’s multimedia work, which investigates the passions Neshat has for Iranian history, displacement, and political revolution.
Neshat left her home in Iran in 1975 at the age of 17 to study at the University of California at Berkeley. She was unable to return to her home country due to the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. The themes of being away from family and torn between cultures, politics, and worlds — as well as contemporary and historic gender roles — are featured throughout.
“Shirin Neshat has lived her life and made her art in between two different cultures, Iranian and American,” exhibition curator Ed Schad said in a statement. “And this existence has given her a poetic and penetrating ability to understand the physical and psychological borders of our world today: borders of nation, of gender, of exile, and of spirit."
