The first major institutional solo exhibition in Italy of Iranian artist Shirin Neshat at PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan.
This monumental exhibition spans over 30 years of Neshat’s groundbreaking career, featuring nearly 200 photographs and 10 video installations, collected by some of the world’s most prestigious museums, including Whitney Museum, MoMA, Guggenheim and Tate Modern.
Neshat’s artwork presents a poignant interpretation of the history and present of Iran and the world at large told from the female perspective. The show covers work from her debut in the 1990s with the ‘Women of Allah’ series, comprising photographs of women whose bodies are inscribed with poetic calligraphy, to ‘The Fury’, a video installation that anticipates the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Neshat’s work, however, goes beyond the theme of gender and uses male/female dualism as a starting point for exploring the tension between belonging and exile, sanity and insanity, dream and reality.
The exhibition runs until 8 June 2025.
