Sunday, October 09, 2005

"A Weapon of Beauty": Shirin Neshat in the Los Angeles Times

(Jennifer S. Altman / LAT)

"I try to find beauty in the middle of the horror, and vice versa," she says. "Sometimes, really horrible things — you can turn into a weapon of beauty."
-Shirin Neshat in an interview with Tyler Green

Tyler Green's article on the Iranian- American artist Shirin Neshat in the Los Angeles Times is well written and provacative. A must read:
Shirin Neshat: Trapped Between Two Worlds



More on Shirin Neshat:
Shirin Neshat: Photo Essays- Time Europe

posted by Gregg Chadwick at 11:08 AM

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